American Standard Version

Proverbs 10:14-19 American Standard Version (ASV)

14. Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

15. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

16. The labor of the righteous tendeth to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.

17. He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

18. He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.