Proverbs 10:31-32

³¹Os iusti germinabit sapientiam,lingua prava abscindetur.

³²Labia iusti considerant placita,et os impiorum perversa.

Proverbs 10 marks a decisive shift in the book of Proverbs. The extended discourses of chapters 1–9 give way to a collection of individual, pithy sayings—the first of several Solomonic collections. Each verse is a self-contained unit, typically a two-line parallelism contrasting the