Proverbs 21:5-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
    but everyone who is hasty comes only to want.
⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a snare^[a] of death.
⁷ The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,
    because they refuse to do what is just.
⁸ The way of the guilty is crooked,
    but the conduct of the pure is right.
⁹ It is better to live in a corner of the housetop
    than in a house shared with a contentious wife.
¹⁰ The souls of the wicked desire evil;
    their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.