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Proverbs 19:10-17 Amplified Bible (AMP)

10. Luxury is not fitting for a [self-confident] fool–much less for a slave to rule over princes.

11. Good sense makes a man restrain his anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression or an offense.

12. The king's wrath is as terrifying as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as [refreshing as] dew upon the grass. [Hos. 14:5.]

13. A self-confident and foolish son is the [multiplied] calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are like a continual dripping [of water through a chink in the roof].

14. House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a wise, understanding, and prudent wife is from the Lord. [Prov. 18:22.]

15. Slothfulness casts one into a deep sleep, and the idle person shall suffer hunger.

16. He who keeps the commandment [of the Lord] keeps his own life, but he who despises His ways shall die. [Luke 10:28; 11:28.]

17. He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, and that which he has given He will repay to him. [Prov. 28:27; Eccl. 11:1; Matt. 10:42; 25:40; II Cor. 9:6-8; Heb. 6:10.]