UKJV - Proverbs - 10

10:1  The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

10:2  Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.

10:3  The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.

10:4  He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

10:5  He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.

10:6  Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

10:7  The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

10:8  The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a babbling fool shall fall.

10:9  He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

10:10  He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a babbling fool shall fall.

10:11  The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

10:12  Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.

10:13  In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

10:14  Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

10:15  The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

10:16  The labour of the righteous tends to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

10:17  He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof errs.

10:18  He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

10:19  In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

10:20  The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

10:21  The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom.

10:22  The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

10:23  It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

10:24  The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

10:25  As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

10:26  As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

10:27  The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

10:28  The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

10:29  The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

10:30  The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

10:31  The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

10:32  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks perverseness.