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The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
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The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
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The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
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Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, [bringeth] only to want.
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Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
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That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
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Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
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that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
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Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
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for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them.
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Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;
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lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.
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Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts: