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16 Length of days in her right hand; in her left, riches and honor. 17 Her ways the ways of pleasantness, and all her beaten paths, peace. 18 She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast. 19 Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; he prepared the heavens by understanding. 20 By his knowledge the depths were rent, and the clouds will drop dew. 21 My son, they shall not depart from thine eyes: keep counsel and meditation: 22 And they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy throat. 23 Then shalt thou go thy way confidently, and thy foot shall not stumble. 24 If thou shalt lie down thou shalt not be afraid: and thou liest down and thy sleep shall be sweet. 25 Thou shalt not be afraid from sudden terror, and from the destruction of the unjust when it shall come. 26 For Jehovah shall be in thy confidence, and he watched thy foot from being taken. 27 Thou shalt not withhold good from those possessing it in its being to the power of thy hand to do. 28 Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee. 29 Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee. 30 Thou shalt not contend with man to no purpose, if he did thee no evil. 31 Thou shalt not envy against a man of violence, and thou shalt choose in all his ways. 32 For the perverse is an abomination of Jehovah: and his intercourse with the upright. 33 The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the unjust one: and he will bless the dwelling of the just. 34 But he will deride to those deriding: and he will give grace to the humble. 35 The wise shall inherit glory, and the foolish exalt dishonor. Proverbs 3:16-35, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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