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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Proverbs 11 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/proverbs/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Proverbs 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/10.htm" title="Proverbs 10">◄</a> Proverbs 11 <a href="../proverbs/12.htm" title="Proverbs 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_1"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.1" class="v20_11_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> hates people who use dishonest scales. He is happy with honest weights.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_2"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.2" class="v20_11_2">2</span>People who are proud will soon be disgraced. It is wiser to be modest.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_3"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.3" class="v20_11_3">3</span>If you are good, you are guided by honesty. People who can't be trusted are destroyed by their own dishonesty.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_4"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.4" class="v20_11_4">4</span>Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_5"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.5" class="v20_11_5">5</span>Honesty makes a good person's life easier, but the wicked will cause their own downfall.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_6"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.6" class="v20_11_6">6</span>Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_7"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.7" class="v20_11_7">7</span>When the wicked die, their hope dies with them. Confidence placed in riches comes to nothing.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_8"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.8" class="v20_11_8">8</span>The righteous are protected from trouble; it comes to the wicked instead.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_9"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.9" class="v20_11_9">9</span>You can be ruined by the talk of godless people, but the wisdom of the righteous can save you.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_10"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.10" class="v20_11_10">10</span>A city is happy when honest people have good fortune, and there are joyful shouts when the wicked die.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_11"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.11" class="v20_11_11">11</span>A city becomes great when the righteous give it their blessing; but a city is brought to ruin by the words of the wicked.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_12"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.12" class="v20_11_12">12</span>It is foolish to speak scornfully of others. If you are smart, you will keep quiet.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_13"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.13" class="v20_11_13">13</span>No one who gossips can be trusted with a secret, but you can put confidence in someone who is trustworthy.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_14"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.14" class="v20_11_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.11.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> A nation will fall if it has no guidance. Many advisers mean security.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_15"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.15" class="v20_11_15">15</span>If you promise to pay a stranger's debt, you will regret it. You are better off if you don't get involved.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_16"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.16" class="v20_11_16">16</span>A gracious woman is respected, but a woman without virtue is a disgrace.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_16">Lazy people will never have money,<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.11.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> but aggressive people will get rich.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_17"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.17" class="v20_11_17">17</span>You do yourself a favor when you are kind. If you are cruel, you only hurt yourself.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_18"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.18" class="v20_11_18">18</span>Wicked people do not really gain anything, but if you do what is right, you are certain to be rewarded.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_19"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.19" class="v20_11_19">19</span>Anyone who is determined to do right will live, but anyone who insists on doing wrong will die.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_20"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.20" class="v20_11_20">20</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> hates evil-minded people, but loves those who do right.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_21"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.21" class="v20_11_21">21</span>You can be sure that evil people will be punished, but the righteous will escape.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_22"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.22" class="v20_11_22">22</span>Beauty in a woman without good judgment is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_23"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.23" class="v20_11_23">23</span>What good people want always results in good; when the wicked get what they want, everyone is angry.<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.11.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_24"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.24" class="v20_11_24">24</span>Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_25"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.25" class="v20_11_25">25</span>Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_26"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.26" class="v20_11_26">26</span>People curse someone who hoards grain, waiting for a higher price, but they praise the one who puts it up for sale.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_27"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.27" class="v20_11_27">27</span>If your goals are good, you will be respected, but if you are looking for trouble, that is what you will get.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_28"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.28" class="v20_11_28">28</span>Those who depend on their wealth will fall like the leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_29"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.29" class="v20_11_29">29</span>Those who bring trouble on their families will have nothing at the end.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_29">Foolish people will always be servants to the wise.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_30"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.30" class="v20_11_30">30</span>Righteousness<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.11.30!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> gives life, but violence<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.11.30!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> takes it away.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v20_11_31"><span class="reftext" id="Prov.11.31" class="v20_11_31">31</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.11.31!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.16: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">but a woman … money; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew does not have these words.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.23: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">everyone is angry; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">God punishes them.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.30: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Righteousness; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">A righteous person.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">11.30: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">violence; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a wise person.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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