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Wicked people will be swept up in their own violence
    because they refuse to seek justice.
Dishonest people walk along the crooked path they have made,
    but the innocent travel the straight course they have laid.
It is better to dwell outside on the corner of your roof
    than to live inside your house with a badgering wife.

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

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

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

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