Proverbs 11:9-11

Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ With their words hypocrites can destroy their neighbors. But with what they know, good people can escape.

¹⁰ When good people are successful, the whole city is happy, and they all shout with joy when evil people are destroyed.

¹¹ Blessings from the honest people living in a city will make it great, but the things evil people say can destroy it.