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Guilty people are always going the wrong way.
    Good people keep on the right way.
It is better to live on the roof of your house
    than to live with a wife who always argues.
10 Evil things are the food that wicked people eat to live.
    They are not kind to anyone, even their friends.

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The way of the guilty is devious,(A)
    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.(B)

10 The wicked crave evil;
    their neighbors get no mercy from them.

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The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

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