The one who gives an answer before he listens – that is his folly and his shame.

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool.

There are many plans in a person’s mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.

A generous person will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.

for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.

Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

Every word of God is purified; he is like a shield for those who take refuge in him.

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

“At that time I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.

An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

In the seventh month of that very same year the prophet Hananiah died.

(On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

On that day a fugitive will come to you to report the news.

Ammon’s king will be deported; he and his officials will be carried off together.” The Lord has spoken!

In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.