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The Book of Proverbs 21

21 Yahweh directs what kings think like a farmer directs streams

to bring water anywhere he wants it to go.

2 People think that everything they do is right,

but Yahweh rightly evaluates what they think.

3 Acting righteously and justly is more important to Yahweh

than sacrificing animals to him.

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

both are sinful.

5 What diligent people plan will certainly profit them,

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

6 When people gain wealth by speaking falsely,

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

7 When wicked people act violently, they destroy themselves

because they refuse to act justly.

8 Guilty people act perversely,

but innocent people act uprightly.

9 It 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.

10 Wicked people strongly desire to act evilly,

they will not be merciful to the people they know.

11 If 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.

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

he destroys them.

13 People 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.

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

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

15 Righteous people enjoy acting justly,

but acting justly terrifies people who act sinfully.

16 People who stop behaving insightfully

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

17 People who love what is pleasurable will be poor.

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

18 Wicked people will suffer instead of righteous people,

and treacherous people will suffer in place of upright people.

19 It is better to live alone in a deserted land

than to live with an argumentative and vexing wife.

20 Wise people have precious riches and olive oil,

but foolish people waste everything that they have.

21 People who diligently try to be righteous and faithful

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

22 Wise people conquer cities that mighty warriors are defending;

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

23 People who are careful about anything they say

avoid becoming distressed.

24 People who ridicule others act presumptuously and arrogantly;

they behave furiously and presumptuously.

25 Lazy people want what will kill them

because they refuse to work.

26 Lazy people always want more things for themselves,

but righteous people generously give what they have to others.

27 What wicked people offer to Yahweh is detestable;

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

28 Witnesses who lie will die,

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

29 Wicked people show how stubborn they are,

but upright people think about what they do.

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

31 Soldiers prepare to fight,

but Yahweh determines who wins that fight.

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