1: If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it--how shortsighted to refuse correction!
2: A good person basks in the delight of GOD, and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.
3: You can't find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm.
4: A hearty wife invigorates her husband, but a frigid woman is cancer in the bones.
5: The thinking of principled people makes for justice; the plots of degenerates corrupt.
6: The words of the wicked kill; the speech of the upright saves.
7: Wicked people fall to pieces--there's nothing to them; the homes of good people hold together.
8: A person who talks sense is honored; airheads are held in contempt.
9: Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.
10: Good people are good to their animals; the "good-hearted" bad people kick and abuse them.
11: The one who stays on the job has food on the table; the witless chase whims and fancies.
12: What the wicked construct finally falls into ruin, while the roots of the righteous give life, and more life.
13: The gossip of bad people gets them in trouble; the conversation of good people keeps them out of it.
14: Well-spoken words bring satisfaction; well-done work has its own reward.
15: Fools are headstrong and do what they like; wise people take advice.
16: Fools have short fuses and explode all too quickly; the prudent quietly shrug off insults.
17: Truthful witness by a good person clears the air, but liars lay down a smoke screen of deceit.
18: Rash language cuts and maims, but there is healing in the words of the wise.
19: Truth lasts; lies are here today, gone tomorrow.
20: Evil scheming distorts the schemer; peace-planning brings joy to the planner.
21: No evil can overwhelm a good person, but the wicked have their hands full of it.
22: God can't stomach liars; he loves the company of those who keep their word.
23: Prudent people don't flaunt their knowledge; talkative fools broadcast their silliness.
24: The diligent find freedom in their work; the lazy are oppressed by work.
25: Worry weighs us down; a cheerful word picks us up.
26: A good person survives misfortune, but a wicked life invites disaster.
27: A lazy life is an empty life, but "early to rise" gets the job done.
28: Good men and women travel right into life; sin's detours take you straight to hell.