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PROVERBS
- Even they both are an abomination to the Lord.
- 16Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool
- To buy wisdom, seeing he hath no understanding?
- 17A friend loveth at all times,
- And a brother is born for adversity.
- 18A man void of understanding is he that striketh hands,
- And becometh surety in the presence of his neighbour.
- 19He loveth transgression that loveth strife;
- He that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
- 20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good;
- And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into evil.
- 21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow;
- And the father of a churl hath no joy.
- 22A merry heart is a good medicine;
- But a broken spirit drieth the bones.
- 23A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom,
- To pervert the ways of justice.
- 24Wisdom is before him that hath understanding;
- But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
- 25A foolish son is vexation to his father,
- And bitterness to her that bore him.
- 26To punish also the righteous is not good,
- Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
- 27He that spareth his words hath knowledge;
- And he that husbandeth his spirit is a man of discernment.
- 28Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise;
- And he that shutteth his lips is esteemed as a man of understanding.
- 18 He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire,
- And snarlest against all sound wisdom.
- 2A fool hath no delight in understanding,
- But only that his heart may lay itself bare.
- 3When the wicked cometh, there cometh also contempt,
- And with ignominy reproach.
- 4The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters;
- A flowing brook, a fountain of wisdom.
- 5It is not good to respect the person of the wicked,
- So as to turn aside the righteous in judgment.
- 6A fool's lips enter into contention,
- And his mouth calleth for strokes.
- 7A fool's mouth is his ruin,
- And his lips are the snare of his soul.
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