1: Good leadership is a channel of water controlled by God; he directs it to whatever ends he chooses.
2: We justify our actions by appearances; GOD examines our motives.
3: Clean living before God and justice with our neighbors mean far more to GOD than religious performance.
4: Arrogance and pride--distinguishing marks in the wicked--are just plain sin.
5: Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run; hurry and scurry puts you further behind.
6: Make it to the top by lying and cheating; get paid with smoke and a promotion--to death!
7: The wicked get buried alive by their loot because they refuse to use it to help others.
8: Mixed motives twist life into tangles; pure motives take you straight down the road.
9: Better to live alone in a tumbledown shack than share a mansion with a nagging spouse.
10: Wicked souls love to make trouble; they feel nothing for friends and neighbors.
11: Simpletons only learn the hard way, but the wise learn by listening.
12: A God-loyal person will see right through the wicked and undo the evil they've planned.
13: If you stop your ears to the cries of the poor, your cries will go unheard, unanswered.
14: A quietly given gift soothes an irritable person; a heartfelt present cools a hot temper.
15: Good people celebrate when justice triumphs, but for the workers of evil it's a bad day.
16: Whoever wanders off the straight and narrow ends up in a congregation of ghosts.
17: You're addicted to thrills? What an empty life! The pursuit of pleasure is never satisfied.
18: What a bad person plots against the good, boomerangs; the plotter gets it in the end.
19: Better to live in a tent in the wild than with a cross and petulant spouse.
20: Valuables are safe in a wise person's home; fools put it all out for yard sales.
21: Whoever goes hunting for what is right and kind bfinds life itself--glorious life!
22: One sage entered a whole city of armed soldiers--their trusted defenses fell to pieces!
23: Watch your words and hold your tongue; you'll save yourself a lot of grief.
24: You know their names--Brash, Impudent, Blasphemer--intemperate hotheads, every one.
25: Lazy people finally die of hunger because they won't get up and go to work.
26: Sinners are always wanting what they don't have; the God-loyal are always giving what they do have.
27: Religious performance by the wicked stinks; it's even worse when they use it to get ahead.
28: A lying witness is unconvincing; a person who speaks truth is respected.
29: Unscrupulous people fake it a lot; honest people are sure of their steps.
30: Nothing clever, nothing conceived, nothing contrived, can get the better of GOD.
31: Do your best, prepare for the worst--then trust GOD to bring victory.