• • • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
    • A Guide to Self-Reflection
    • A chart to help articulate feelings

¹ The wisest of women builds her house,

but folly with her own hands tears it down.

² Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord,

but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

³ By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back,

but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

⁴ Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,

but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.

⁵ A faithful witness does not lie,

but a false witness breathes out lies.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,

but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

⁷ Leave the presence of a fool,

for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way,

but the folly of fools is deceiving.

⁹ Fools mock at the guilt offering,

but the upright enjoy acceptance.

¹⁰ The heart knows its own bitterness,

and no stranger shares its joy.

¹¹ The house of the wicked will be destroyed,

but the tent of the upright will flourish.

¹² There is a way that seems right to a man,

but its end is the way to death.

¹³ Even in laughter the heart may ache,

and the end of joy may be grief.