Proverbs 15:23-25

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²³ A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment—how good it is!

²⁴ The path of the wise leads upward to life, that he may avoid [the gloom] in the depths of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead).^(A)

²⁵ The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but He makes secure the boundaries of the [consecrated] widow.