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for their redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
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Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
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Do not withhold discipline from your children; if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.
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If you beat them with the rod, you will save their lives from Sheol
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My child, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
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My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
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Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the Lord.
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Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
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Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way
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Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
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for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags
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Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
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The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
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Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.
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My child, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
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For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
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She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
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Those who linger late over wine, those who keep trying mixed wines.
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Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.