Proverbs 12:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
    but the house of the righteous will stand.
⁸One is commended for good sense,
    but a perverse mind is despised.
⁹Better to be despised and have a servant,
    than to be self-important and lack food.

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