Proverbs 21:8-10
The Message
8 Mixed motives twist life into tangles;
pure motives take you straight down the road.
Do Your Best, Prepare for the Worst
9 Better to live alone in a tumbledown shack
than share a mansion with a nagging spouse.
10 Wicked souls love to make trouble;
they feel nothing for friends and neighbors.
Proverbs 21:8-10
New International Version
8 The way of the guilty is devious,(A)
but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
9 Better to live on a corner of the roof
than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.(B)
10 The wicked crave evil;
their neighbors get no mercy from them.
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