³ Honesty guides good people;
    dishonesty destroys treacherous people.

⁶ The godliness of good people rescues them;
    the ambition of treacherous people traps them.

¹⁸ The wicked are punished in place of the godly,
    and traitors in place of the honest.

¹² The Lord preserves those with knowledge,
    but he ruins the plans of the treacherous.