Study Desk

A man taking false news is a cause of trouble, but he who gives news rightly makes things well.

Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.

To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.