Proverbs 10:26-28

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²⁶ Sending a lazy person to do anything is as irritating as vinegar on your teeth or smoke in your eyes.

²⁷ Respect for the Lord will add years to your life, but the wicked will have their lives cut short.

²⁸ What good people hope for brings happiness,^[a] but what the wicked hope for brings destruction.