Proverbs 21:6-13

⁶He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

⁷By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

⁸Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

⁹It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

¹⁰The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

¹¹When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.

¹²The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

¹³He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.