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In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
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Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
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The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.
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The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
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Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.
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One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.
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The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
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The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be killed in the public square!”
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The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the LORD’s wrath falls into it.
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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.