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- Bee not thou enuious against euill men, neither desire to be with them.
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- For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.
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- Through wisdome is an house builded, and with vnderstanding it is established.
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- And by knowledge shall the chambers bee filled with all precious, and pleasant riches.
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- A wise man is strong: for a man of vnderstanding encreaseth his strength.
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- For with counsel thou shalt enterprise thy warre, and in the multitude of them that can giue counsell, is health.
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- Wisdome is hie to a foole: therefore he can not open his mouth in the gate.
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- Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.
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- The wicked thought of a foole is sinne, and the scorner is an abomination vnto men.
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- If thou bee faint in the day of aduersitie, thy strength is small.
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- Deliuer them that are drawen to death: wilt thou not preserue them that are led to be slaine?
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- If thou say, Beholde, we knew not of it: he that pondereth the heartes, doeth not hee vnderstand it?
And hee that keepeth thy soule, knoweth he it not? Will not he also recompense euery man according to his workes?
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- My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.
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- So shall the knowledge of wisdome be vnto thy soule, if thou finde it, and there shall be an ende, and thine hope shall not be cut off.
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- Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.
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- For a iust man falleth seuen times, and riseth againe: but the wicked fall into mischiefe.
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- Bee thou not glad when thine enemie falleth, and let not thine heart reioyce when hee stumbleth,
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- Least the Lorde see it, and it displease him, and he turne his wrath from him.
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- Fret not thy selfe because of the malicious, neither be enuious at the wicked.
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- For there shall bee none ende of plagues to the euill man: the light of the wicked shall bee put out.
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- My sonne feare the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are sedicious.
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- For their destruction shal rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?
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- Also these things perteine to the wise, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.
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- He that saith to the wicked, Thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhorre him.
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- But to them that rebuke him, shall be pleasure, and vpon them shall come the blessing of goodnesse.
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- They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.
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- Prepare thy worke without, and make readie thy thinges in the fielde, and after, builde thine house.
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- Be not a witnes against thy neighbour without cause: for wilt thou deceiue with thy lippes?
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- Say not, I wil doe to him, as he hath done to mee, I will recompence euery man according to his worke.
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- I passed by the fielde of the slouthfull, and by the vineyarde of the man destitute of vnderstanding.
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- And lo, it was al growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken downe.
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- Then I behelde, and I considered it well: I looked vpon it, and receiued instruction.
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- Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.
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- So thy pouertie commeth as one that traueileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.
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