Proverbs

⁶Get good advice before you start a war. To win, you must have many good advisors. ⁷Fools cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say when people are discussing important things. ⁸If you start planning ways to do wrong, people will learn that you are a troublemaker. ⁹Such foolish plans are wrong, and people have no respect for someone who laughs at what is right. ¹⁰If you are weak in times of trouble, that is real weakness. ¹¹If you see someone on their way to death or in danger of being killed, you must do something to save them. ¹²You cannot say, “It’s none of my business.” The Lord knows everything, and he knows why you do things. He watches you, and he will pay you back for what you do.