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

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12 Hatred stirs up a quarrel,
but love covers all sins.

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17 Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is
    than a fatted ox and hatred with it.(A)

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17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.

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Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.(A)

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Whoever mocks a poor person insults his Maker.
A person who rejoices over calamity will not escape.

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17 Do not rejoice when your enemies fall,
    and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble,(A)
18 lest the Lord see it and be displeased
    and turn away his anger from them.

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17 Do not be happy when your enemy falls.
Do not let your heart celebrate when he stumbles.
18 If you do, the Lord will see it and consider it evil,
and he will turn his anger away from him.

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21 If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat,
    and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink,(A)
22 for you will heap coals of fire on their heads,
    and the Lord will reward you.(B)

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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat.
If he is thirsty, give him something to drink,
22 because you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the Lord will repay you.

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