1. If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it—how shortsighted to refuse correction!
2. A good person basks in the delight of God,and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.
3. You can’t find firm footing in a swamp,but life rooted in God stands firm.
4. A hearty wife invigorates her husband,but a frigid woman is cancer in the bones.
5. The thinking of principled people makes for justice;the plots of degenerates corrupt.
6. The words of the wicked kill;the speech of the upright saves.
7. Wicked people fall to pieces—there’s nothing to them;the homes of good people hold together.
8. A person who talks sense is honored;airheads are held in contempt.
9. Better to be ordinary and work for a livingthan act important and starve in the process.
10. Good people are good to their animals;the “good-hearted” bad people kick and abuse them.
11. The one who stays on the job has food on the table;the witless chase whims and fancies.
12. What the wicked construct finally falls into ruin,while the roots of the righteous give life, and more life.
13. The gossip of bad people gets them in trouble;the conversation of good people keeps them out of it.
14. Well-spoken words bring satisfaction;well-done work has its own reward.