Proverbs 21:5-12 The Message (MSG)

5. Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run;hurry and scurry puts you further behind.

6. Make it to the top by lying and cheating;get paid with smoke and a promotion—to death!

7. The wicked get buried alive by their lootbecause they refuse to use it to help others.

8. Mixed motives twist life into tangles;pure motives take you straight down the road.

9. Better to live alone in a tumbledown shackthan share a mansion with a nagging spouse.

10. Wicked souls love to make trouble;they feel nothing for friends and neighbors.

11. Simpletons only learn the hard way,but the wise learn by listening.

12. A God-loyal person will see right through the wickedand undo the evil they’ve planned.

Proverbs 21