Proverbs 12:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸One is commended for good sense,
    but a perverse mind is despised.
⁹Better to be despised and have a servant,
    than to be self-important and lack food.
¹⁰The righteous know the needs of their animals,
    but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

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