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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2All a person's ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Commit your works to the LORD, and your plans will be established. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The LORD works everything for its own ends--even the wicked for the day of disaster. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The LORD abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Through loyal love and truth iniquity is appeased; through fearing the LORD one avoids evil. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7When a person's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he even reconciles his enemies to himself. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Better to have a little with righteousness than to have abundant income without justice. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A person plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The divine verdict is in the words of the king, his pronouncements must not act treacherously against justice. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are his handiwork. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Doing wickedness is an abomination to kings, because a throne is established in righteousness. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The delight of kings is righteous counsel, and they love the one who speaks uprightly. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14A king's wrath is like a messenger of death, but a wise person appeases it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15In the light of the king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds of the spring rain. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The one who deals wisely in a matter will find success, and blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The one who is wise in heart is called discerning, and kind speech increases persuasiveness. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23A wise person's heart makes his speech wise and it adds persuasiveness to his words. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26A laborer's appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him to work. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27A wicked scoundrel digs up evil, and his slander is like a scorching fire. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Gray hair is like a crown of glory; it is attained in the path of righteousness. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the LORD. |
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