Proverbs 21:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸Guilty people walk a crooked path; the innocent do what is right.

⁹^(A)Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.

¹⁰Wicked people are always hungry for evil; they have no mercy on anyone.

Proverbs 21:8-10

New International Version

⁸The way of the guilty is devious,^(A)
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.^(B)

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

⁸The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

⁹It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

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

Good News Translation (GNT)

New International Version (NIV)