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Proverbs 11:8

New International Version

The righteous person is rescued from trouble, and it falls on the wicked instead.

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The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.

Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of their power comes to nothing.

With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

Evildoers are trapped by their sinful talk, and so the innocent escape trouble.

The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the unfaithful for the upright.

Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth: “May you prosper greatly!