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

¹⁷ Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise,

and apply your heart to my knowledge,

¹⁸ for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,

if all of them are ready on your lips.

¹⁹ That your trust may be in the Lord,

I have made them known to you today, even to you.

²⁰ Have I not written for you thirty sayings

of counsel and knowledge,

²¹ to make you know what is right and true,

that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor,

or crush the afflicted at the gate,

²³ for the Lord will plead their cause

and rob of life those who rob them.

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man given to anger,

nor go with a wrathful man,

²⁵ lest you learn his ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.

²⁶ Be not one of those who give pledges,

who put up security for debts.

²⁷ If you have nothing with which to pay,

why should your bed be taken from under you?

²⁸ Do not move the ancient landmark

that your fathers have set.

²⁹ Do you see a man skillful in his work?

He will stand before kings;

he will not stand before obscure men.