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Proverbs 21:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You destroy yourself by being cruel and violent and refusing to live right.

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The trouble they cause comes back on them, and their heads are crushed by their own evil deeds.

You showed what you are like, and you made certain that justice is done, but evil people are trapped by their own evil deeds.

Everyone praises good people, but evil hides behind the words of the wicked.

If you try to be kind and good, you will be blessed with life and goodness and honour.

And as for you, people of Judah, I'm going to send you away from my land, just as I sent away the people of Ephraim and the other northern tribes.

It is his father who will die for cheating and robbing and doing evil.

You people are doomed! You twist the truth and trample on justice.

Don't let anyone trick you with foolish talk. God punishes everyone who disobeys him and says foolish things.