14 Starting a quarrel is like breaching a dam;
    so drop the matter before a dispute breaks out.(A)

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19 Whoever loves a quarrel loves sin;
    whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.

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It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
    but every fool(A) is quick to quarrel.(B)

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10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
    quarrels and insults are ended.(A)

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21 As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire,
    so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.(A)

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19 Truthful lips endure forever,
    but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

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22 The Lord detests lying lips,(A)
    but he delights(B) in people who are trustworthy.(C)

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20 One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper;
    one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.

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A false witness(A) will not go unpunished,(B)
    and whoever pours out lies will not go free.(C)

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22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
    better to be poor than a liar.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame

A fortune made by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death

20 From the fruit of their mouth a person’s stomach is filled;
    with the harvest of their lips they are satisfied.(A)

21 The tongue has the power of life and death,(B)
    and those who love it will eat its fruit.(C)

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