The Message

Proverbs 28:1-6 The Message (MSG)

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.