Proverbs 17:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁰The crooked of mind do not prosper,
    and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.
²¹The one who begets a fool gets trouble;
    the parent of a fool has no joy.
²²A cheerful heart is a good medicine,
    but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

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