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A human heart makes the plans, Yahweh gives the answer.
16:2
A person's own acts seem right to the doer, but Yahweh is the weigher of souls.
16:3
Commend what you do to Yahweh, and what you plan will be achieved.
16:4
Yahweh made everything for its own purpose, yes, even the wicked for the day of disaster.
16:5
Every arrogant heart is abhorrent to Yahweh: be sure this will not go unpunished.
16:6
By faithful love and constancy sin is expiated; by fear of Yahweh evil is avoided.
16:7
Let Yahweh be pleased with someone's way of life and he makes that person's very enemies into friends.
16:8
Better have little and with it uprightness than great revenues with injustice.
16:9
The human heart may plan a course, but it is Yahweh who makes the steps secure.
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The lips of the king utter prophecies, he keeps faith when he speaks in judgement.
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The balances and scales belong to Yahweh, all the weights in the bag are of his making.
16:12
Evil-doing is abhorrent to kings, since uprightness is a throne's foundation.
16:13
Upright lips are welcome to a king, he loves someone of honest words.
16:14
The king's wrath is the herald of death, but the wise will appease it.
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When the king's face brightens it spells life, his favour is like the rain in spring.
16:16
Better gain wisdom than gold, choose understanding in preference to silver.
16:17
To turn from evil is the way of the honest; whoever watches the path keeps life safe.
16:18
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
16:19
Better be humble with the poor than share the booty with the proud.
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Whoever listens closely to the word finds happiness; whoever trusts Yahweh is blessed.
16:21
The wise of heart is acclaimed as intelligent, sweetness of speech increases knowledge.
16:22
Shrewdness is a fountain of life for its possessor, the folly of fools is their own punishment.
16:23
The heart of the wise lends shrewdness to speech and makes words more persuasive.
16:24
Kindly words are a honeycomb, sweet to the taste, wholesome to the body.
16:25
There is a way that some think straight, but it leads in the end to death.
16:26
A worker's appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him on.
16:27
A worthless person concocts evil, such a one's talk is like a scorching fire.
16:28
A troublemaker sows strife, a slanderer divides friend from friend.
16:29
The violent lures his neighbour astray and leads him by a way that is not good.
16:30
Whoever narrows the eyes to think up tricks and purses the lips has already done wrong.
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White hairs are a crown of honour, they are found in the ways of uprightness.
16:32
Better an equable person than a hero, someone with self-mastery than one who takes a city.
16:33
In the fold of the garment the lot is thrown, but from Yahweh comes the decision.
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