Proverbs 11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Proverbs 11

1 falls,

but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

15To guarantee loans for a stranger brings trouble,

but there is safety in refusing to do so.

16

The timid become destitute,

but the aggressive gain riches.

17Those who are kind reward themselves,

but the cruel do themselves harm.

18

but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.

29Those who trouble their households will inherit wind,

and the fool will be servant to the wise.

30 1 Cor 9.19; Jas 5.20 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,

and the wise capture souls.

31 2 Sam 22.21, 25; Prov 13.21 If the righteous are repaid on earth,

how much more the wicked and the sinner!