Try stepping on the scales and getting it to say a different weight then it suppose to be because you want it to say you lost five pounds and you did not, especially if you have a weigh in partner. A little to much weight and you land up being the one that pays the reward of movie night out, or some other activity. You loose that weight and you do not have to pay your weigh in partner. Now with this mentality of tipping the scales you become a devil. Lord does not delight in your dishonesty but when you give your partner your true weight it would be to the Lord's delight no matter what you weigh. Your effort reward not the weight as you diet. I watch some of those weight lost programs from time to time, just to encourage myself why to work on weight loss. Yet what those doctors never consider is the muscles weight a person of in activity gains when finally beginning to use those muscles. By badgering those people the way they do, instead of looking maybe they are trying and something else is happening that is progress, they only see a fat person. God see in honest, is the full package deal, how hard one works, how hard one is truly making effort and their true honest in doing so. What doctor sees is only fat. The scales having more of a false weight because of not tipping but because it too can only see the fat and not the muscles of the situation. False knowledge should be abomination to all of us, but truth should be what reigns in our hearts. Doctor that knows not how hard you work should be abonimation to his line of practice if proven false. Now that I talked about a sticky topic of weighing in on the scales lets say one can not weight faith but God and God only looks at humanity unbelief and says it has a false bottom that leads straight to hell.

2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Pride aways leads to a fall, because pride gets in the way of being just sometimes. Why is pride important it has to do with one's ego, one's on way of thinking, to admit being wrong can be a humbling experience. To be lowly and not prideful takes wisdom, to know when to bow and when to stand firm. It about truth, being proclaimed and not one's own perfection or idealism. It saying this is true despite how prideful I am.

3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Integrity and perverseness two big opposites. Intergrity only show how faith alone has value to a person because it guides them, and perverseness/sin of the sinner destroys. Intergrity is truth then it is of God and it guides a person as far as the outcome of the consequences of the truth whether something be good or evil. When we watch, or view a movie do we fail to see the reality of what is horrible. People watch all kinds of things on tv and some laugh at evil and mock good behavior. It sounds like our world is upside down at times when someone is rooting for the villian. I stop and I wonder what has happened in society and it is with horror of facts that people like evil better then good. People weigh not what is good for society and what is not truly good for society. Destruction lays in wait for evil to be destroyed by God's own changing plans.

4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Riches have no value in the day of judgment those things will not be weighed by God but burned and destroyed. Faith of a person delivers a person from destruction.

Our righteousness is about of afaith. The perfect here is speaking of God who will direct the righteous in his way. To be righteous is to have faith in God and God alone.

6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

The sin takes the trangressor further then he wants to go, it takes him to destruction, yet the righteousness of the upright shall be deliver them and the question is how by belief. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. The same definition applies to all righteousness by faith alone for all people of God.

7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. 8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

When a criminal pays for his crime he is no longer a criminal. No is neighbors, still judge him for the crime and all they see is a criminal. Is it right, he paid his debt to society. Well Christ paid my debt of sin, and before God I am not a sinner. Am I a criminal no, I have clean record and never been jail, but there times I feel as my house is a jail cell, with the time I spend here. Some criminals go back to their crime only because they were rejected by clean society. They can't get a job, they can't get a break of a decent apartment or housing and they stuck around the same people that got them messed up in the first place. Society takes a risk by helping out a former convict, but if his intent is I failed, and now I am trying to be a roll model then should he not be given a chance and aid to help his journey. Our hypocrisy cast many into the pit of hell, yet Christ blood covers us. Doesn't seem just does it if looked at things this way.

10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

To avoid wisdom, or good choice makes it bad for even his neighbor. How does anyone sin effect you. Ask society as a gun man kills children or teaches kids to be cruel to other people.

13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

There those that tell everything and there others that hideth the sin of his neighbor. Why a blind eye because of their own transgressions and God's grace when he forgave them.

14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

He that has a mortage, loan, a contract shall rejoice but he that hates debt will be secure. What does that mean the stability of loans are fleeting in regards to paying back but those without loans that can stand on their two feet have not a worry.

16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

Woman be thankful, be ever so gracious to those that you serve, for they will honor you back. And strong men work hard and earn a living.

17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

To be merciful and not revengeful or inflict more wrath then necessary in judgment of another is only half the battle of life. To show mercy gives one's soul peace, but to much judgment can harm even oneself.

18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Wicked work may flourish for a time, but it will not last, but he that sows faith and faith sprouts in other it will grow and flourish.

19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Those of faith/righteous tend to a garden of life/the children of faith for God. If one pursues evil follows death.

20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

To be upright is always God's delight, but to be upright we must what follow God and not foloow after the things God calls abomination or lying heart.

21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Even as wicked join with other wicked people they will not go unpunished, but the seed of the righteous/ children of the righteous will be delivered, talking about society as a whole.

22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

A ring of gold in a pigs snout is like a woman without discretion. A woman without humility, humbleness, graciousness.

23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

To understand to have desire of faith, to hold to faith is good, to hold to things of God, but understand expectation is evil is never righteous, and the wicked still will be destroyed by God.

24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

There those that scatter, and yet they increase. If if you sow seed, it going to fall in many place, so to growth, some death of the seed and others to whither away. There their those that tend to those plants in poverty nourishes and feeds them and they bring forth life abundantly for the improvish plant.

25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

The soul that is liberal becomes fat, fat is excessive of unneeded food, but he that waters also receives water. No one in their right mind offers another drink without having a drink too. It sharing the water that brings nourishment to the body of faith.

26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

As the disciples ate the corn in the field on the Sabbath, did Christ remember these words, I sure he did, but probably not the religious leaders or his disciples. How many curse God from withholding the needs of the people.

27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

He that seeks good, seekth favor from who God, but he that seekth mischief seekth destruction.

28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

He that trust in riches fall, but those that have faith, they can't loose that, it with them, even if they not practicing their faith, it still with them, their heart speaks what they truly believe to God. It does not change it like a beckon.

29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

He that brings trouble his own house will find himself outside his home, unless he owns it. Why because he gets kicked out of it. The fool is a servant to those of wisdom, because they fail to learn to be wise themselves.

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

There fruit on the tree of faith and he that winneth souls is helping in the production of fruit.

31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Righteousness will be repaid in the earth, but the wicked and the sinner far more, because the earth if made for destruction. Anything that belongs to righteous people that has nothing to do with God our creator will be destroyed with fire and brimstone.

This whole Proverb can be summed up as far as God's delight in truth and righteousness of his people and that he believe the evil and wickness of man will have a day of final judgment and will be destroyed. The evil rise and falls, but God's people carry on. To end with Isaiah 59 that God extablished a standard first in Jerusalem and then through the intercessor of those of faith in Christ Jesus.

Continual Scripture Study: Isaiah 59:16-21 KJV
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.