| Chapter 27 |
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Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye. --
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As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast. --
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Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner. --
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Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown. --
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As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts. --
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The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men. --
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Be the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man. --
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Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men. --
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If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation. --
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Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that practise her. --
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The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sine for them that work iniquities. --
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A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon. --
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In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think. --
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The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin. --
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The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears. --
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Is the quarrels of the proud is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing. --
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He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. --
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Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity. --
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But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him. --
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For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so also is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour. --
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And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again. --
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Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare: because his soul is wounded. --
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Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation: --
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But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul. --
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He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off: --
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In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock. --
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I have hated many things, but not like him, and the Lord will hate him. --
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If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful. --
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He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it. --
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A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him. --
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31 |
Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him. --
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They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die. --
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Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them. --
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