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Proverbs 21:1-10

1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. He directs it like a stream of water anywhere 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 Everything a man does might seem right to him. But the LORD knows what he is thinking.

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

3 Do what is right and fair. The LORD accepts that more than sacrifices.

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

4 Proud eyes and a proud heart are the lamp of sinful people. But those things are evil.

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

5 The plans of people who work hard succeed. You can be sure that those in a hurry will become poor.

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

6 A fortune made by people who tell lies amounts to nothing and leads to death.

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

7 The harmful things that evil people do will drag them away. They refuse to do what is right.

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

8 The path of those who are guilty is crooked. But the conduct of those who are not guilty is honest.

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 a roof than to share a house with a nagging wife.

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

10 A sinful person longs to do evil. He doesn't show his neighbor any mercy.

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