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Prepare what to say, and so thou shalt be heard; and bind up instruction, and then make your answer.
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The heart of the foolish is like a cart wheel, and his thoughts are like a rolling axle.
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A stallion horse is as a mocking friend: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.
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Why doth one day excel another, when all the light of every day in the year is from the sun?
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By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, and He altered seasons and feasts.
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Some of them hath He made high days, and hallowed them, and some of them hath He made ordinary days.
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And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth.
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In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their ways diverse.
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Some of them hath He blessed and exalted, and some of them He sanctified and set near Himself; but some of them hath He cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places.
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As the clay is in the potter's hand to fashion it at his pleasure, so man is in the hand of Him that made him, to render to them as He liketh best.
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Good is set against evil, and life against death; so is the godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly.