| 1: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is
deceived thereby is not wise. |
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| 2: The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso
provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. |
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| 3:
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling. |
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| 4: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore
shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. |
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| 5: Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out. |
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| 6: Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a
faithful man who can find? |
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| 7: The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are
blessed after him. |
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| 8: A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away
all evil with his eyes. |
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| 9: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my
sin? |
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| 10: Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike
abomination to the LORD. |
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| 11: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be
pure, and whether it be right. |
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| 12: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even
both of them. |
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| 13: Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes,
and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. |
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| 14: It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is
gone his way, then he boasteth. |
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| 15: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of
knowledge are a precious jewel. |
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| 16: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a
pledge of him for a strange woman. |
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| 17: Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth
shall be filled with gravel. |
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| 18: Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice
make war. |
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| 19: He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:
therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. |
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| 20: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put
out in obscure darkness. |
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| 21: An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but
the end thereof shall not be blessed. |
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| 22: Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD,
and he shall save thee. |
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| 23: Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false
balance is not good. |
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| 24: Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand
his own way? |
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| 25: It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy,
and after vows to make inquiry. |
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| 26: A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel
over them. |
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| 27: The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all
the inward parts of the belly. |
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| 28: Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden
by mercy. |
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| 29: The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of
old men is the gray head. |
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| 30: The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes
the inward parts of the belly. |
