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These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.
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They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them.
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They that rebuke him shall be praised: and a blessing shall come upon them.
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He shall kiss the lips, who answereth right words.
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Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
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Be not witness without cause against thy neighbour: and deceive not any man with thy lips.
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Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me: I will render to every one according to his work.
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I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man:
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And behold it was all filled with nettles, and thorns had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
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Which when I had seen, I laid it up in my heart, and by the example I received instruction.
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Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.
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And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.