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Proverbs 21:5-15 God's Word Translation (GW)

5. The plans of a hard-working person lead to prosperity,but everyone who is ⌊always⌋ in a hurry ends up in poverty.

6. Those who gather wealth by lying are wasting time.They are looking for death.

7. The violence of wicked people will drag them awaysince they refuse to do what is just.

8. The way of a guilty person is crooked,but the behavior of those who are pure is moral.

9. Better to live on a corner of a roofthan to share a home with a quarreling woman.

10. The mind of a wicked person desires eviland has no consideration for his neighbor.

11. When a mocker is punished, a gullible person becomes wise,and when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.

12. A righteous person wisely considers the house of a wicked person.He throws wicked people into disasters.

13. Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will call and not be answered.

14. A gift ⌊given⌋ in secret calms anger,and a secret bribe calms great fury.

15. When justice is done, a righteous person is delighted,but troublemakers are terrified.

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