Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Proverbs 24:1-11 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

1. Don’t be jealous of evil people. Have no desire to be around them.

2. In their hearts they plan to do evil. All they talk about is making trouble.

3. Good homes are built on wisdom and understanding.

4. Knowledge fills the rooms with rare and beautiful treasures.

5. Wisdom makes a man more powerful. Knowledge gives a man strength.

6. Get good advice before you start a war. To win, you must have many good advisors.

7. Fools cannot understand wisdom. They have nothing to say when people are discussing important things.

8. If you start planning ways to do wrong, people will learn that you are a troublemaker.

9. Such foolish plans are wrong, and people have no respect for someone who laughs at what is right.

10. If you are weak in times of trouble, that is real weakness.

11. If you see someone on their way to death or in danger of being killed, you must do something to save them.