Add parallel Print Page Options

21 The human mind may devise many plans,
    but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.
22 What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
    and it is better to be poor than a liar.
23 The fear of the Lord is life indeed;
    filled with it one rests secure
    and suffers no harm.

Read full chapter

21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.(A)

22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
    better to be poor than a liar.

23 The fear of the Lord leads to life;
    then one rests content, untouched by trouble.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame