Proverbs 19

1: Better a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is crooked in his ways and rich.

2: Without knowledge even zeal is not good and he who acts hastily, blunders.

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8: He who gains intelligence is his won best friend; he who keeps understanding will be successful.

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11: It is good sense in a man to be slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

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14: Home and possessions are an inheritance from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

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16: He who keeps the precepts keeps his life, but the despiser of the word will die.

17: He who has compassion on the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his good deed.

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20: Listen to counsel and receive intruction, that you may eventually become wise.

21: Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the decision of the Lord that endures.