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The Counsel of Yahweh Will Stand

19 (A)Better is a poor man who (B)walks in his integrity
Than he who is crooked in lips and is a fool.

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19 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than a fool whose lips are perverse.(A)

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The (A)folly of man subverts his way,
But his heart (B)rages against Yahweh.

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A person’s own folly(A) leads to their ruin,
    yet their heart rages against the Lord.(B)

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10 Luxury is (A)not fitting for a fool;
Much less for a (B)slave to rule over princes.

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10 It is not fitting for a fool(A) to live in luxury—
    how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!(B)

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29 [a]Judgments are established for (A)scoffers,
And (B)beatings for the back of fools.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:29 Gr Rods

29 Penalties are prepared for mockers,
    and beatings for the backs of fools.(A)

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