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Proverbs 20:9-19
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Proverbs 20:9-19
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9
Who can
say
, I have made my
heart
clean
, I am
pure
from my
sin?
10
Divers
weights
*
,
[a]
and divers
measures
*
,
both
of them are
alike
abomination
to the
LORD.
11
Even a
child
is
known
by his
doings,
whether his
work
be
pure,
and whether it be
right.
12
The
hearing
ear,
and the
seeing
eye,
the
LORD
hath
made
even
both
of them.
13
Love
not
sleep,
lest thou come to
poverty
;
open
thine
eyes,
and thou shalt be
satisfied
with
bread.
14
It is
naught,
it is
naught,
saith
the
buyer
: but when he is
gone
his way, then he
boasteth
.
15
There
is
gold,
and a
multitude
of
rubies:
but the
lips
of
knowledge
are a
precious
jewel.
16
Take
his
garment
that is
surety
for a
stranger
: and take a
pledge
of him for a strange
woman.
17
Bread
of
deceit
[b]
is
sweet
to a
man;
but
afterwards
his
mouth
shall be
filled
with
gravel.
18
Every
purpose
is
established
by
counsel:
and with good
advice
make
war.
19
He that goeth
about
as a
talebearer
revealeth
secrets:
therefore
meddle
not with him that
flattereth
[c]
with his
lips.
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[a].
Divers weights: Heb. A stone and a stone
[b].
deceit: Heb. lying, or, falsehood
[c].
flattereth: or, enticeth
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