Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Proverbs 11:4-9 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

4. Money is worthless when you face God’s punishment, but living right will save you from death.

5. Doing right makes life better for those who are good, but the wicked are destroyed by their own wicked ways.

6. Doing right sets honest people free, but people who can’t be trusted are trapped by their greed.

7. When the wicked die, all their hopes are lost; everything they thought they could do comes to nothing.

8. Good people escape from trouble, but the wicked come along and are trapped by it.

9. With their words hypocrites can destroy their neighbors. But with what they know, good people can escape.