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Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever
is deceived thereby is not wise.
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The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso]
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 will be meddling.
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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
[therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
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Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man
of understanding will draw it out.
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Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a
faithful man who can find?
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The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are]
blessed after him.
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A king that sitteth in 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, [and] divers measures, both of them [are]
alike abomination to the LORD.
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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, the LORD hath made
even both of them.
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine
eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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[It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when
he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
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There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of
knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
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Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take
a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his
mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good
advice make war.
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He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets:
therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be
put out in obscure darkness.
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An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning;
but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
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Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the
LORD, and he shall save thee.
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Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a
false balance [is] not good.
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Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then
understand his own way?
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[It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is]
holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
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A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel
over them.
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The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching
all the inward parts of the belly.
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Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is
upholden by mercy.
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The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty
of old men [is] the gray head.
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The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do]
stripes the inward parts of the belly.