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Proverbs 12:26-28
Contemporary English Version

26 You are better off to do right,
than to lose your way
    by doing wrong.[a]
27 Anyone too lazy to cook
    will starve,
but a hard worker
    is a valuable treasure.[b]
28 Living right is a pathway
that leads to life
    and away from death.

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Footnotes

  1. 12.26 wrong: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 26.
  2. 12.27 but … treasure: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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