Proverbs 19

¹ E better make you dey poor but honest pass make you be fool wey dey lie.

² To get passion for something without knowledge no be good thing; if you no get patience, you go enter trouble.

³ Some people dey destroy themselves by their own stupid actions and dem go con dey blame God.

⁴ Rich people dey always find new friends, but the poor no fit keep the few wey dem get.

⁵ If you con lie for court, you go receive punishment - you no fit escape am.

⁶ Na everyone dey try gain favor of important people; na everyone dey claim say those people wey dey give out favor na their friend.

⁷ Even relatives of poor person no get use for him; no wonder he no get friends. E no matter how hard he try, e no fit win any.

⁸ Do yourself a favor and learn everything wey you fit learn; then remember wetin you don learn and you go prosper.

⁹ No one wey lie for court fit escape punishment; he don enter trouble.

¹⁰ Make fools no live like rich, and make slaves no rule over rich men.

¹¹ If you get sense, you go control your temper. When someone don do you wrong, na great honor to ignore am.

¹² Anger of a king be like shout of lion, but him favor be like gentle rain.

¹³ Stupid pikin dey bring trouble to him papa. A wife wey dey complain be like water wey dey drip and drip.

¹⁴ A man fit inherit house and money from him parents, but na only God fit give him a wife wey get sense.

¹⁵ Make you dey lazy if you wan dey lazy; continue dey sleep, but hunger go wire you.

¹⁶ Keep laws of God and you go live longer; if you con ignore them, you go die.

¹⁷ When you give to the poor, na like say you dey borrow God something, and God go pay you back.

¹⁸ Discipline your children when dem still dey young enough to learn. If you no discipline them, you dey help them to destroy themselves.

¹⁹ If someone get hot temper, make he take the end results. If you don save him from trouble once, you go need to do am again.

²⁰ If you dey listen to advice and you dey ready to learn, one day you go wise.

²¹ People fit plan all kinds things, but na the will of God go happen.

²² Na shame to dey greedy; poor people better pass people wey dey lie.

²³ Obey God and you go live a long life, and you go dey safe from trouble.

²⁴ Some people dey too lazy to put food for their own mouths.

²⁵ Make una punish the stubborn people, so that people wey no know any better fit learn lesson. If you wise, you go learn when dem correct you.

²⁶ Na only person wey no get shame go treat him papa bad or chase him mama away from him home.

²⁷ Son, when you stop to dey learn, you go soon abandon wetin you don already know.

²⁸ Justice no dey for where witness don determined to hurt someone. Wicked people dey love the taste of evil.

²⁹ E dey sure say selfish fool go receive punishment.