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If you plant the seeds of injustice, disaster will spring up, and your oppression of others will end.
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Be generous and share your food with the poor. You will be blessed for it.
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Get rid of a conceited person, and then there will be no more arguments, quarreling, or name-calling.
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If you love purity of heart and graciousness of speech, the king will be your friend.
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The Lord sees to it that truth is kept safe by disproving the words of liars.
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Lazy people stay at home; they say a lion might get them if they go outside.
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Adultery is a trap - it catches those with whom the Lord is angry.
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Children just naturally do silly, careless things, but a good spanking will teach them how to behave.
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If you make gifts to rich people or oppress the poor to get rich, you will become poor yourself.
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Listen, and I will teach you what the wise have said. Study their teachings,
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and you will be glad if you remember them and can quote them.