1. The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run offeven when no one’s after them;Honest people are relaxed and confident,bold as lions.
2. When the country is in chaos,everybody has a plan to fix it—But it takes a leader of real understandingto straighten things out.
3. The wicked who oppress the poorare like a hailstorm that beats down the harvest.
4. If you desert God’s law, you’re free to embrace depravity;if you love God’s law, you fight for it tooth and nail.
5. Justice makes no sense to the evilminded;those who seek God know it inside and out.
6. It’s better to be poor and directthan rich and crooked.
7. Practice God’s law—get a reputation for wisdom;hang out with a loose crowd—embarrass your family.
8. Get as rich as you wantthrough cheating and extortion,But eventually some friend of the pooris going to give it all back to them.
9. God has no use for the prayersof the people who won’t listen to him.
10. Lead good people down a wrong pathand you’ll come to a bad end;do good and you’ll be rewarded for it.