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13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.

16 for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.

20 for the evildoer has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

22 for those two will send sudden destruction on them, and who knows what calamities they can bring?

24 Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent,” will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.

30 I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;

3 As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house— too much of you, and they will hate you.

22 In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

23 Like a north wind that brings unexpected rain is a sly tongue—which provokes a horrified look.

24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well are the righteous who give way to the wicked.

4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.

9 Like a thornbush in a drunkard’s hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

10 Like an archer who wounds at random is one who hires a fool or any passer-by.

21 As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

2 Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.

14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed your family and to nourish your female servants.

13 Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.