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The Lord hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.

People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.

If you are good, you are good, you are guided by honesty. People who can't be trusted are destroyed by their own dishonesty.

Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.

Honesty makes a good mans life easier, but a wicked man will cause his own downfall.

Righteousness rescues the honest man, but some who can't be trusted is trapped by his own greed.

When a wicked man dies, his hope dies with him. Confidence placed in riches comes to nothing.

The righteous are protected from trouble; it comes to the wicked instead.

You can be ruined by the talk of godless people, but the wisdom of the righteous can save you.

A city is happy when honest people have good fortune, and there are joyful shouts when wicked men die.

It is foolish to speak scornfully of others. If you are sensible, you will keep quiet.

No one who gossips can be trusted with a secret, but you can ut confidence in someone who is trustworthy.

A nation will fall if it has no guidance. Many advisers mean security.

If you promise to pay a strangers debts, you will regret it. You are better off if you don't get involved.

A gracious lady is respected, but a woman without virtue is a disgrace.

A Lazy man will never have money, but an aggressive man will get rich.

You do yourself a favour when you are kind. If you are cruel, you only hurt yourself.

Wicked people do not really gain anything, but if you do what is right, you are certain to be rewarded.

Anyone who is determind to do what is right, you are certain to be rewarded.

Anyone who is determined to do right will live, but anyone who insists doing wrong will die.

The Lord hates evil-minded people, but loves those who do right.

You can be sure that evil men will be punished, but righteous men will escape.

Beauty in a woman without good judgement is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.

What good people want always results in good; when the wicked get what they want, everyone is angry.

Some people spend their money freely and still go richer. Others are cautious and yet go poorer.

Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped.

People curse a man who hoards grain, waiting for a higher price, but they praise the one who puts it for sale.

If your goals are good, you will be respected, but if you are looking for trouble, that is what you will get.

Those who depend on their wealth will fall like leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.

The man who brings trouble on his family will have nothing at the end.

Foolish men will always be servants to the wise.

Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.

Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.