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12 Hatred stirs up strife,
    but love covers all wrongs.

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

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17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
    than a fattened calf with hatred.

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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”

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker.
    He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

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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 rejoice when your enemy falls.
    Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him,
    and he turn away his wrath 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.
    If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
    and Yahweh will reward you.

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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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