Proverbs 11:5-7

International Children’s Bible

⁵The goodness of an innocent person makes his life easier.
But a wicked person will be destroyed by his wickedness.

⁶Doing what is right brings freedom to honest people.
But those who are not trustworthy will be caught by their own desires.

⁷When a wicked person dies, his hope is gone.
The hopes he placed in his riches will come to nothing.

Proverbs 11:5-7

New International Version

⁵The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,^(A)
but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.^(B)

⁶The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.^(C)

⁷Hopes placed in mortals die with them;^(D)
all the promise of^[a] their power comes to nothing.^(E)

Proverbs 11:7 Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from

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