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20 Listen to advice and accept discipline,
    and you’ll be wise for the rest of your life.[a]

21 Many plans occupy the mind[b] of a man,
    but the Lord’s purposes will prevail.[c]
22 Human beings long for grace,
    and it’s better to be poor than a man of deceit.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:20 The Heb. lacks of your life
  2. Proverbs 19:21 Lit. heart
  3. Proverbs 19:21 Or will be established