Proverbs 16

¹The plans of the heart belong to man;

²All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;

³Commit thy works unto Jehovah,

⁴Jehovah hath made everything for its own end;

⁵Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah:

⁶By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for;

⁷When a man’s ways please Jehovah,

⁸Better is a little, with righteousness,

⁹A man’s heart deviseth his way;

¹⁰A divine sentence is in the lips of the king;

¹¹A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s;

¹²It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness;

¹³Righteous lips are the delight of kings;

¹⁴The wrath of a king is as messengers of death;

¹⁵In the light of the king’s countenance is life;

¹⁶How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!

¹⁷The highway of the upright is to depart from evil:

¹⁸Pride goeth before destruction,

¹⁹Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,

²⁰He that giveth heed unto the word shall find good;

²¹The wise in heart shall be called prudent;

²²Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it;

²³The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth,

²⁴Pleasant words are as a honeycomb,

²⁵There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,

²⁶The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him;

²⁷A worthless man deviseth mischief;

²⁸A perverse man scattereth abroad strife;

²⁹A man of violence enticeth his neighbor,

³⁰He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things:

³¹The hoary head is a crown of glory;

³²He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;

³³The lot is cast into the lap;