Proverbs 10:15-17

Easy-to-Read Version

¹⁵Wealth protects the rich, but poverty destroys the poor.

¹⁶What good people do brings life, but wicked people produce only sin.

¹⁷Those who accept correction show others how to live. Those who reject correction lead others the wrong way.

Proverbs 10:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,^(A)
but poverty is the ruin of the poor.^(B)

¹⁶The wages of the righteous is life,^(C)
but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.^(D)

¹⁷Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life,^(E)
but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.

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New International Version (NIV)