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10 Good people are kind
to their animals,
    but a mean person is cruel.

11 Hard working farmers have more
    than enough food;
daydreamers are nothing more
    than stupid fools.
12 An evil person tries to hide
    behind evil;[a]
good people are like trees
    with deep roots.

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Footnotes

  1. 12.12 An evil … evil: Or “Evil people love what they get from being evil.”

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