We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.

22  Don’t rob the poor just because you can, or exploit the needy in court.

23  For the LORD is their defender. He will ruin anyone who ruins them.

A worthy wife is a crown for her husband, but a disgraceful woman is like cancer in his bones.

For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.

A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.

Drive out the scoffer, and contention will go out, Even strife and dishonor will cease.

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.

Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.