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Guilty people live dishonest lives,
but ·honest people do right [virtuous people are pure].

It is better to live in a corner on the roof [C living space in biblical times]
than inside the house with a ·quarreling [contentious] wife.

10 Evil people ·only want [desire] to harm others.
Their neighbors get no ·mercy [favor; grace] from them.

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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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