12 Hatred stirs up conflicts,
but love covers all offenses.(A)

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12 Hatred stirs up strife,
    but love covers over all offenses.

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17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened ox(A) with hatred.(B)

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17 Better is a dinner of vegetables when[a] love is there
    than a fattened ox and hatred with it.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:17 Hebrew “and”
  2. Proverbs 15:17 Or “him”

The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker,(A)
and one who rejoices over calamity
will not go unpunished.(B)

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He who mocks the poor insults him who made him;
    he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

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17 Don’t gloat when your enemy falls,
and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,(A)
18 or the Lord will see, be displeased,
and turn His wrath away from him.

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17 While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice;
    when he trips himself, may your heart[a] not be glad
18 lest Yahweh see and it be evil in his eyes,
    and turn his anger away from him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:17 Or “mind”

21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;(A)
22 for you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the Lord will reward you.(B)

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21 If your enemy is hungry, feed him bread,
    and if thirsty, let him drink water.
22 For coals of fire you will heap upon his head,
    and Yahweh will reward you.

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