Proverbs 21:13-16 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. If you refuse to listen to the cries of poor people, you too will cry out and not be answered.

14. A secret gift calms anger down. A hidden favor softens great anger.

15. When you do what is fair, you make godly people glad. But you terrify those who do what is evil.

16. A man who leaves the path of understanding ends up with those who are dead.

Proverbs 21