Proverbs 11 LSV

1. Balances of deceit are an abomination to YHWH, and a perfect weight is His delight.

2. Pride has come, and shame comes, and wisdom is with the lowly.

3. The integrity of the upright leads them, and the perverseness of the treacherous destroys them.

4. Wealth does not profit in a day of wrath, and righteousness delivers from death.

5. The righteousness of the perfect makes his way right, and by his wickedness the wicked fall.

6. The righteousness of the upright delivers them, and in mischief the treacherous are captured.

7. In the death of a wicked man, hope perishes, and the expectation of the iniquitous has been lost.

8. The righteous is drawn out from distress, and the wicked goes in instead of him.

9. A hypocrite corrupts his friend with the mouth, and the righteous are drawn out by knowledge.

10. A city exults in the good of the righteous, and in the destruction of the wicked is singing.

11. By the blessing of the upright is a city exalted, and by the mouth of the wicked thrown down.

12. Whoever is despising his neighbor lacks heart, and a man of understanding keeps silence.

13. A busybody is revealing secret counsel, and the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

14. Without counsels a people falls, and deliverance is in a multitude of counselors.

15. An evil one suffers when he has been guarantor for a stranger, and whoever hates striking hands in agreement is confident.

16. A gracious woman retains honor, and terrible men retain riches.

17. A kind man is rewarding his own soul, and the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

18. The wicked is getting a lying wage, and whoever is sowing righteousness—a true reward.

19. Correctly is righteousness for life, and whoever is pursuing evil—for his own death.

20. The perverse of heart are an abomination to YHWH, and the perfect of the way are His delight.

21. Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, and the seed of the righteous has escaped.

22. A ring of gold in the nose of a sow—A beautiful woman and stubborn of behavior.

23. The desire of the righteous is only good, the hope of the wicked is transgression.

24. There is one who is scattering, and yet is increased, and one who is keeping back from uprightness, only to want.

25. A liberal soul is made fat, and whoever is watering, he also is watered.

26. Whoever is withholding grain, the people execrate him, and a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.

27. Whoever is earnestly seeking good seeks a pleasing thing, and whoever is seeking evil—it meets him.

28. Whoever is confident in his wealth falls, and as a leaf, the righteous flourish.

29. Whoever is troubling his own house inherits wind, and the fool is a servant to the wise of heart.

30. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever is taking souls is wise.

31. Behold, the righteous is repaid in the earth, surely also the wicked and the sinner!