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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making vows. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts. |
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