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PRO 21:1–21:31 ©

The Book of Proverbs 21

21Yahweh directs what kings think like a farmer directs streams

to bring water anywhere he wants it to go.

2People think that everything they do is right,

but Yahweh rightly evaluates what they think.

3Acting righteously and justly is more important to Yahweh

than sacrificing animals to him.

4Being proud and arrogant guide what wicked people do like a lamp shows people where to go;

both are sinful.

5What diligent people plan will certainly profit them,

but all those who act too hastily will certainly become poor.

6When people gain wealth by speaking falsely,

that wealth quickly vanishes like mist and what they do will kill them.

7When wicked people act violently, they destroy themselves

because they refuse to act justly.

8Guilty people act perversely,

but innocent people act uprightly.

9It is better to live alone in a corner of a housetop

than to live inside a house with a wife who always argues with you.

10Wicked people strongly desire to act evilly,

they will not be merciful to the people they know.

11If you punish people who ridicule others, then naive people who see you do that will become wise,

and if you teach wise people, they will become even more knowledgeable.

12Yahweh, the Righteous One, knows the families of wicked people,

he destroys them.

13People who refuse to listen to poor people when they cry out for help,

will also cry out for help themselves, but no one will help them.

14Secretly giving something to an angry person will stop them from being angry.

Indeed, secretly bribing a furious person will calm them down.

15Righteous people enjoy acting justly,

but acting justly terrifies people who act sinfully.

16People who stop behaving insightfully

will end up in the place where the spirits of dead people are together.

17People who love what is pleasurable will be poor.

Indeed, people who love luxuries like wine and olive oil will never be rich.

18Wicked people will suffer instead of righteous people,

and treacherous people will suffer in place of upright people.

19It is better to live alone in a deserted land

than to live with an argumentative and vexing wife.

20Wise people have precious riches and olive oil,

but foolish people waste everything that they have.

21People who diligently try to be righteous and faithful

will live for a long time, will be righteous, and people will respect them.

22Wise people conquer cities that mighty warriors are defending;

they pull down the walls that people in those cities believe will protect them.

23People who are careful about anything they say

avoid becoming distressed.

24People who ridicule others act presumptuously and arrogantly;

they behave furiously and presumptuously.

25Lazy people want what will kill them

because they refuse to work.

26Lazy people always want more things for themselves,

but righteous people generously give what they have to others.

27What wicked people offer to Yahweh is detestable;

it is even more detestable when they offering something to Yahweh while intending to act wickedly!

28Witnesses who lie will die,

but when people who listen carefully speak, others will always remember what they said.

29Wicked people show how stubborn they are,

but upright people think about what they do.

30There is absolutely nothing that is wise, understanding, and advisable, but is also opposite of what Yahweh wants.

31Soldiers prepare to fight,

but Yahweh determines who wins that fight.

PRO 21:1–21:31 ©

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