Proverbs
Chapters 17:7-13
New International Version Anglicized
7Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool –how much worse lying lips to a ruler!
8A bribe is seen as a charm by the one who gives it;they think success will come at every turn.
9Whoever would foster love covers over an offence,but whoever repeats the matter separates close friends.
10A rebuke impresses a discerning personmore than a hundred lashes a fool.
11Evildoers foster rebellion against God;the messenger of death will be sent against them.
12Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubsthan a fool bent on folly.
13Evil will never leave the houseof one who pays back evil for good.