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Proverbs 12:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Proverbs 12:8-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 One is commended for good sense,
but a perverse mind is despised.
9 Better to be despised and have produce[a]
than to be self-important and lack food.
10 The righteous know the needs of their animals,
but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.(A)
Footnotes
- 12.9 Cn: Heb servant
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