Proverbs - Chapter 11 | Good News Translation

  • 1. The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.
  • 2. People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.
  • 3. If you are good, you are guided by honesty. People who can't be trusted are destroyed by their own dishonesty.
  • 4. Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.
  • 5. Honesty makes a good person's life easier, but the wicked will cause their own downfall.
  • 6. Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed.
  • 7. When the wicked die, their hope dies with them. Confidence placed in riches comes to nothing.
  • 8. The righteous are protected from trouble; it comes to the wicked instead.
  • 9. You can be ruined by the talk of godless people, but the wisdom of the righteous can save you.
  • 10. A city is happy when honest people have good fortune, and there are joyful shouts when the wicked die.
  • 11. A city becomes great when the righteous give it their blessing; but a city is brought to ruin by the words of the wicked.
  • 12. It is foolish to speak scornfully of others. If you are smart, you will keep quiet.
  • 13. No one who gossips can be trusted with a secret, but you can put confidence in someone who is trustworthy.
  • 14. A nation will fall if it has no guidance. Many advisers mean security.
  • 15. If you promise to pay a stranger's debt, you will regret it. You are better off if you don't get involved.
  • 16. A gracious woman is respected, but a woman without virtue is a disgrace. Lazy people will never have money, but aggressive people will get rich.
  • 17. You do yourself a favor when you are kind. If you are cruel, you only hurt yourself.
  • 18. Wicked people do not really gain anything, but if you do what is right, you are certain to be rewarded.
  • 19. Anyone who is determined to do right will live, but anyone who insists on doing wrong will die.
  • 20. The LORD hates evil-minded people, but loves those who do right.
  • 21. You can be sure that evil people will be punished, but the righteous will escape.
  • 22. Beauty in a woman without good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.
  • 23. What good people want always results in good; when the wicked get what they want, everyone is angry.
  • 24. Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer.
  • 25. Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped.
  • 26. People curse someone who hoards grain, waiting for a higher price, but they praise the one who puts it up for sale.
  • 27. If your goals are good, you will be respected, but if you are looking for trouble, that is what you will get.
  • 28. Those who depend on their wealth will fall like the leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.
  • 29. Those who bring trouble on their families will have nothing at the end. Foolish people will always be servants to the wise.
  • 30. Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.
  • 31. Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.
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