Proverbs 12:9-11

The Message

⁹ Better to be ordinary and work for a living
    than act important and starve in the process.

¹⁰ Good people are good to their animals;
    the “good-hearted” bad people kick and abuse them.

¹¹ The one who stays on the job has food on the table;
    the witless chase whims and fancies.