Proverbs 12:9

A Conservative Version

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

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Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

There is he who makes himself rich, yet has nothing, [and] he who makes himself poor, yet [has] great wealth.

This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.