Proverbs 19 contains yet more of Solomon’s wisdom sayings: it is not good to heave zeal without knowledge… many curry favour with a ruler… he who cherishes understanding prospers… it is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury – how much worse for a slave to rule over princes… a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping… houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord… he who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord… what a man desires is unfailing love… flog a mocker and the simple will learn prudence.
