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The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
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It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.
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The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out.
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Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but a faithful man who shall find?
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The righteous walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him!
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A king sitting on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
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Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
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The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.