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

¹⁸ One who lacks sense gives a pledge

and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

¹⁹ Whoever loves transgression loves strife;

he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

²⁰ A man of crooked heart does not discover good,

and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.

²¹ He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow,

and the father of a fool has no joy.

²² A joyful heart is good medicine,

but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

²³ The wicked accepts a bribe in secret

to pervert the ways of justice.

²⁴ The discerning sets his face toward wisdom,

but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

²⁵ A foolish son is a grief to his father

and bitterness to her who bore him.

²⁶ To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good,

nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

²⁷ Whoever restrains his words has knowledge,

and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

²⁸ Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;

when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

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