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Proverbs 21:1-6
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The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he
1
turns it wherever he will.
2
2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD
3
weighs the heart.
3
4
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
4
5
Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
6
the lamp
[a]
of the wicked, are sin.
5
The plans of
7
the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is
8
hasty comes
9
only to poverty.
6
10
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a
11
fleeting
12
vapor and a
13
snare of death.
[b]
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13
1.
[
Ezra 6:22
]
2.
Proverbs 16:2
; [
Proverbs 12:15
]
3.
Proverbs 24:12
; [
Luke 16:15
;
1 Corinthians 4:4
]; See
1 Samuel 16:7
4.
See
Proverbs 15:8
;
1 Samuel 15:22
5.
See
Proverbs 6:17
;
Psalms 101:5
6.
1 Kings 11:36
7.
Proverbs 10:4
8.
[
Proverbs 19:2
]
9.
[
Proverbs 11:24
;
Proverbs 14:23
;
Proverbs 22:16
]
10.
Proverbs 20:21
; See
Proverbs 10:2
11.
[
Proverbs 13:11
]
12.
Job 13:25
13.
[
Proverbs 8:36
]
Footnotes
2
[a].
Or the plowing
[b].
Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Latin; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.