Today is the 18th of the month.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Proverb.

I'm Brian Hardin from daily audiobibbibble.com,

and it's great to be here with you.

Unfiltered wisdom for our souls.

That's the book of Proverbs,

and we'll read the 18th chapter today.

From today's new international version.

Thank you. will read the 18th chapter today, from today's new international version. An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends, and against all sound judgments, starts quarrels.

Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions.

When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach.

The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.

It is not good to be partial to the wicked and so deprive the innocent of justice.

The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.

The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels.

They go down to the inmost parts.

One who is slack in his work is a close relative of one who destroys.

The name of the Lord is a fortified tower.

The righteous run to it and are safe.

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city.

They imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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