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| [1]A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace. |
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| [2]Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah. |
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| [3]The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished. |
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| [4]The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life. |
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| [5]Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. |
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| [6]Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it. |
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| [7]The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender. |
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| [8]Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. |
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| [9]The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor. |
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| [10]Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease. |
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| [11]Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend. |
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| [12]The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous. |
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| [13]The slothful hath said, `A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.' |
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| [14]A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there. |
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| [15]Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him. |
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| [16]He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want. |
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| [17]Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, |
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| [18]For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. |
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| [19]That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. |
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| [20]Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? |
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| [21]To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee. |
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| [22]Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. |
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| [23]For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers. |
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| [24]Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, |
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| [25]Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul. |
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| [26]Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens. |
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| [27]If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee? |
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| [28]Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made. |
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| [29]Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men! |
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