Proverbs 21:3-11

³To do what is right and just is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

⁴Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the lamp of the wicked—are sin.

⁵The plans of the diligent lead only to prosperity, but everyone who acts too quickly comes only to poverty.

⁶Acquiring riches by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare that kills.

⁷The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is just.

⁸The way of a guilty person is crooked, but the one who is pure does what is right.

⁹It is better to live on a corner of the roof than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

¹⁰The appetite of the wicked craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

¹¹When the mocker is punished, the naive become wise, and when the wise person is instructed, he lays hold of knowledge.