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A person doesn’t gain security by wickedness,
    but the righteous won’t be uprooted.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband,
    but a wife[a] who puts him to shame is like bone cancer.[b]
The plans of the righteous are just,
    but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:4 Lit. but she
  2. Proverbs 12:4 Lit. decay