Dual Panel1Don't envy bad people; don't even want to be around them.
2All they think about is causing a disturbance; all they talk about is making trouble.
3It takes wisdom to build a house, and understanding to set it on a firm foundation;
4It takes knowledge to furnish its rooms with fine furniture and beautiful draperies.
5It's better to be wise than strong; intelligence outranks muscle any day.
6Strategic planning is the key to warfare; to win, you need a lot of good counsel.
7Wise conversation is way over the head of fools; in a serious discussion they haven't a clue.
8The person who's always cooking up some evil soon gets a reputation as prince of rogues.
9Fools incubate sin; cynics desecrate beauty.
10If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn't much to you in the first place.
11Rescue the perishing; don't hesitate to step in and help.
12If you say, "Hey, that's none of my business," will that get you off the hook? Someone is watching you closely, you know--Someone not impressed with weak excuses.
13Eat honey, dear child--it's good for you--and delicacies that melt in your mouth.
14Likewise knowledge, and wisdom for your soul--Get that and your future's secured, your hope is on solid rock.
15Don't interfere with good people's lives; don't try to get the best of them.
16No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don't stay down long; Soon they're up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.
17Don't laugh when your enemy falls; don't crow over his collapse.
18GOD might see, and become very provoked, and then take pity on his plight.
19Don't bother your head with braggarts or wish you could succeed like the wicked.
20Those people have no future at all; they're headed down a dead-end street.
21Fear GOD, dear child--respect your leaders; don't be defiant or mutinous.
22Without warning your life can turn upside-down, and who knows how or when it might happen?
23It's wrong, very wrong, to go along with injustice.
24Whoever whitewashes the wicked gets a black mark in the history books,
25But whoever exposes the wicked will be thanked and rewarded.
26An honest answer is like a warm hug.
27First plant your fields; [then] build your barn.
28Don't talk about your neighbors behind their backs--no slander or gossip, please.
29Don't say to anyone, "I'll get back at you for what you did to me. I'll make you pay for what you did!"
30One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a lout;
31They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down.
32I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened:
33"A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy--do you know what comes next?
34Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!"