1. The Lord hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.
2. People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
3. If you are good, you are guided by honesty. People who can't be trusted are destroyed by their own dishonesty.
4. Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.
5. Honesty makes a good person's life easier, but the wicked will cause their own downfall.
6. Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed.
7. When the wicked die, their hope dies with them. Confidence placed in riches comes to nothing.