Proverbs 21:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

⁷The bad things that evil people do will destroy them, because they refuse to do what is right.

⁸Criminals cause trouble wherever they go, but good people are honest and fair.

⁹It is better to live in a small corner on the roof than to share the house with a woman who is always arguing.

Proverbs 21:7-9

New International Version

⁷The violence of the wicked will drag them away,^(A)
for they refuse to do what is right.

⁸The way of the guilty is devious,^(B)
but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

⁹Better to live on a corner of the roof
than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.^(C)

Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

New International Version (NIV)