PROVERBS CHAPTER 14.
V. 33. Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding, it is quietly safe there, and the wise person carefully guards and increases it; but that which is in the midst of fools is made known, they are always eager and loud in giving their opinion, since they believe themselves to be wise, but they thereby reveal their lack of true understanding, they make known the emptiness of their minds.
V. 34. Righteousness exalteth a nation, the exercise of true moral uprightness in every department of a nation’s activity will set such a nation up on high, tend to give it material prosperity, for God rewards civil righteousness in such a manner; but sin is a reproach to any people; if it is openly countenanced in a nation, the consequence is shame, disgrace, injury, decrease, destruction.
V. 35. The king’s favor is toward a wise servant, he will naturally prefer and reward one who is discreet and prudent in his work; but his wrath is against him that causeth shame, it will strike the base and give him his well-merited punishment.