Proverbs 16

The plans of the heart belong to man;

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;

Commit thy works unto Jehovah,

Jehovah hath made everything for its own end;

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah:

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for;

When a man’s ways please Jehovah,

Better is a little, with righteousness,

A man’s heart deviseth his way;

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king;

A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s;

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness;

Righteous lips are the delight of kings;

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death;

In the light of the king’s countenance is life;

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil:

Pride goeth before destruction,

Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,

He that giveth heed unto the word shall find good;

The wise in heart shall be called prudent;

Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it;

The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth,

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb,

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,

The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him;

A worthless man deviseth mischief;

A perverse man scattereth abroad strife;

A man of violence enticeth his neighbor,

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise perverse things:

The hoary head is a crown of glory;

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;

The lot is cast into the lap;