1 Evil people run even though no one is chasing them,but good people are as brave as a lion.
2 When a country is lawless, it has one ruler after another;but when it is led by a leader with understanding and knowledge, it continues strong.
3 Rulers who mistreat the poorare like a hard rain that destroys the crops.
4 Those who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked,but those who obey what they have been taught are against them.
5 Evil people do not understand justice,but those who follow the Lord understand it completely.
6 It is better to be poor and innocentthan to be rich and wicked.