Proverbs 13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Proverbs 13

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but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

2From the fruit of their words good persons eat good things,

but the desire of the treacherous is for wrongdoing.

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but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

10 will dwindle,

but those who gather little by little will increase it.

12Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

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16 Prov 12.23; 15.2 The clever do all things intelligently,

but the fool displays folly.

17 Prov 25.13 A bad messenger brings trouble,

but a faithful envoy, healing.

18 Prov 15.5, 31, 32 Poverty and disgrace are for the one who ignores instruction,

but one who heeds reproof is honored.

19A desire realized is sweet to the soul,

but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

20 Prov 2.19; 15.31 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,

but the companion of fools suffers harm.

21 Ps 32.10 Misfortune pursues sinners,

but prosperity rewards the righteous.

22 Job 27.16, 17; Prov 28.8; Eccl 2.26 The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,

but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.

23 Prov 12.11 The field of the poor may yield much food,

but it is swept away through injustice.

24 Prov 19.18; 22.15; 29.15, 17 Those who spare the rod hate their children,

but those who love them are diligent to discipline them.

25 Ps 34.10; 37.3 The righteous have enough to satisfy their appetite,

but the belly of the wicked is empty.