Proverbs

²Proud and boastful people will be shamed, but wisdom stays with those who are modest and humble. ³Good people are guided by their honesty, but crooks who lie and cheat will ruin themselves. ⁴Money is worthless when you face God’s punishment, but living right will save you from death. ⁵Doing right makes life better for those who are good, but the wicked are destroyed by their own wicked ways. ⁶Doing right sets honest people free, but people who can’t be trusted are trapped by their greed. ⁷When the wicked die, all their hopes are lost; everything they thought they could do comes to nothing. ⁸Good people escape from trouble, but the wicked come along and are trapped by it.