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Proverbs 21:1-10

1 The king's heart in ADONAI's hand is like streams of water -he directs it wherever he pleases.

1 In the LORD’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.

2 All a person's ways are right in his own view, but ADONAI weighs the heart.

2 A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart.

3 To do what is right and just is more pleasing to ADONAI than sacrifice.

3 To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

4 Haughty looks, a proud heart -what the wicked plow is sin.

4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.

5 The plans of the diligent lead only to abundance; but all who rush in arrive only at want.

5 The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.

6 A fortune gained by a lying tongue is vapor dispersed [by] seekers of death.

6 A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to act justly.

7 The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.

8 A criminal's conduct is crooked, but the work of the pure is right.

8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

9 It is better to live on a corner of the roof than to share the house with a nagging wife.

9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

10 The wicked is set on evil; he doesn't pity even his neighbor.

10 The wicked crave evil; their neighbors get no mercy from them.