Proverbs

⁶Many will entreat the favour of the liberal man: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. ⁷All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him! he pursueth them with words, but they are gone. ⁸He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good. ⁹A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that uttereth lies shall perish. ¹⁰Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. ¹¹The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. ¹²The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.