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Proverbs 21:1-10

1 The king's heart is like streams of water. Both are under the LORD's control. He turns them in any direction he chooses.

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

2 A person thinks everything he does is right, but the LORD weighs hearts.

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

3 Doing what is right and fair is more acceptable to the LORD than offering a sacrifice.

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

4 A conceited look and an arrogant attitude, which are the lamps of wicked people, are sins.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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