New English Translation

Proverbs 21:5-9 New English Translation (NET)

5. The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty,but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

6. Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.

7. The violence done by the wicked will drag them awaybecause they refuse to do what is right.

8. The way of the guilty person is devious,but as for the pure, his way is upright.

9. It is better to live on a corner of the housetopthan in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.