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The Book of Proverbs 12

12 People who love other people correcting them also love learning what they should know.

But people who hate other people correcting them are stupid.

2 Yahweh approves of people who are good,

but he condemns people who plan to do what is evil.

3 People cannot live stably by acting wickedly,

but righteous people are as stable as a tree with immovable roots.

4 A virtuous wife causes people to praise her husband,

but a disgraceful wife destroys her husband like a disease that destroys his bones.

5 What righteous people plan is just,

but what wicked people advise is deceitful.

6 What wicked people say causes people to die like someone who hides in wait in order to kill someone who walks by;

but what upright people say will enable them to escape.

7 Yahweh destroys wicked people and they will cease to exist,

but the families of righteous people will continue to exist.

8 People will praise someone according to how insightful that person is,

but people will despise someone who thinks perversely.

9 People whom others disrespect yet have servants are better

than people who think they are important yet have no food.

10 Righteous people take care of their animals,

but even when wicked people try to act compassionately, they act cruelly.

11 People who work hard will have enough food to eat,

but people who waste time doing worthless things do not think wisely.

12 Wicked people want what evil people steal,

but righteous people benefit others like a tree with deep roots.

13 What wicked people sinfully say will destroy them,

but righteous people will not become distressed.

14 What people say will satisfy them with what is good;

what people work hard to accomplish will benefit them.

15 Foolish people think that what they are doing is always right;

but wise people listen to what other people advise them to do.

16 People know immediately when foolish people are angry;

but clever people ignore it when someone disrespects them.

17 People who easily speak truthfully speak righteously,

but witnesses who speak falsely speak deceitfully.

18 When people speak without thinking, they hurt others like someone who stabs people with a sword;

but what wise people say helps people heal.

19 What people say truthfully will last forever,

but what people say falsely will only last for a moment.

20 People who plan to act evilly think deceitfully,

but people who advise others to act peacefully will be joyful.

21 Bad things do not happen to righteous people,

but wicked people will experience many bad things.

22 Yahweh detests people who speak falsely,

but people who act faithfully please him.

23 Clever people conceal what they know,

but stupid people shout out foolish things.

24 People who work hard will reign over others,

but lazy people will become slaves.

25 When people worry, they feel sad,

but when someone says what is good, those people feel happy.

26 Righteous people will guide the people they know,

but what wicked people do causes them to do what will destroy them.

27 Lazy people do not even cook the animal they caught,

but people who work hard acquire valuable riches.

28 People who do what is righteous will live for a long time.

Indeed, people who do so will not die too soon.

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