Welcome to the Daily Audio Proverb. Today is the 13th.

I'm Brian Hardin. We're reading from chapter 13 of the book of Proverbs

from the New American Standard Bible today.

A wise son accepts his father's discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

From the fruit of a man's mouth, he enjoys good, but the desire of the treacherous is violence.

The one who guards his mouth preserves his life,

the one who opens wide his lips, comes to ruin.

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,

but the soul of the diligent is made fat.

A righteous man hates falsehood, but a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.

Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless

But the wickedness subverts the sinner

There is one who pretends to be rich but has nothing

Another pretends to be poor but has great wealth

The ransom of a man's life is tends to be poor, but has great wealth.

The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but the poor hears no rebuke.

The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked goes out.

Through insolence comes nothing but strife, but wisdom is with those who receive counsel.

Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor increases it.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

The one who despises the word will be in debt to it, but the one who fears the commandment

will be rewarded.

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