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Proverbs 29

¹For people who hate discipline and only get more stubborn, There’ll come a day when life tumbles in and they break, but by then it’ll be too late to help them.

²When good people run things, everyone is glad, but when the ruler is bad, everyone groans.

³If you love wisdom, you’ll delight your parents, but you’ll destroy their trust if you run with prostitutes.

⁴A leader of good judgment gives stability; an exploiting leader leaves a trail of waste.

⁵A flattering neighbor is up to no good; he’s probably planning to take advantage of you.

⁶Evil people fall into their own traps; good people run the other way, glad to escape.

⁷The good-hearted understand what it’s like to be poor; the hardhearted haven’t the faintest idea.

⁸A gang of cynics can upset a whole city; a group of sages can calm everyone down.

⁹A sage trying to work things out with a fool gets only scorn and sarcasm for his trouble.

¹⁰Murderers hate honest people; moral folks encourage them.

¹¹A fool lets it all hang out; a sage quietly mulls it over.

¹²When a leader listens to malicious gossip, all the workers get infected with evil.

¹³The poor and their abusers have at least something in common: they can both see—their sight, GOD’s gift!

¹⁴Leadership gains authority and respect when the voiceless poor are treated fairly.

¹⁵Wise discipline imparts wisdom; spoiled adolescents embarrass their parents.

¹⁶When degenerates take charge, crime runs wild, but the righteous will eventually observe their collapse.

¹⁷Discipline your children; you’ll be glad you did— they’ll turn out delightful to live with.

¹⁸If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

¹⁹It takes more than talk to keep workers in line; mere words go in one ear and out the other.

²⁰Observe the people who always talk before they think— even simpletons are better off than they are.

²¹If you let people treat you like a doormat, you’ll be quite forgotten in the end.

²²Angry people stir up a lot of discord; the intemperate stir up trouble.

²³Pride lands you flat on your face; humility prepares you for honors.

²⁴Befriend an outlaw and become an enemy to yourself. When the victims cry out, you’ll be included in their curses if you’re a coward to their cause in court.

²⁵The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in GOD protects you from that.

²⁶Everyone tries to get help from the leader, but only GOD will give us justice.

²⁷Good people can’t stand the sight of deliberate evil; the wicked can’t stand the sight of well-chosen goodness.