A good man obtains favor from the Lord, But a man of wicked intentions He will condemn.
For whoever finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the Lord;
For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.
A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies.
No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil,
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your case is good and right; but there is no deputy of the king to hear you.”
And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man.
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid.
Do they not go astray who devise evil? But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good.
A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, And a man of wicked intentions is hated.