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| 19:1 |
Better the poor walking in integrity than one perverse of speech who is a fool.
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| 19:2 |
Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.
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| 19:3 |
One's own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the LORD.
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| 19:4 |
Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.
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| 19:5 |
A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will not escape.
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| 19:6 |
Many seek the favor of the generous, and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts.
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| 19:7 |
If the poor are hated even by their kin, how much more are they shunned by their friends! When they call after them, they are not there.
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| 19:8 |
To get wisdom is to love oneself; to keep understanding is to prosper.
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| 19:9 |
A false witness will not go unpunished, and the liar will perish.
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| 19:10 |
It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.
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| 19:11 |
Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.
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| 19:12 |
A king's anger is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
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| 19:13 |
A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
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| 19:14 |
House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
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| 19:15 |
Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.
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| 19:16 |
Those who keep the commandment will live; those who are heedless of their ways will die.
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| 19:17 |
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and will be repaid in full.
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| 19:18 |
Discipline your children while there is hope; do not set your heart on their destruction.
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| 19:19 |
A violent tempered person will pay the penalty; if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.
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| 19:20 |
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
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| 19:21 |
The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established.
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| 19:22 |
What is desirable in a person is loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a liar.
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| 19:23 |
The fear of the LORD is life indeed; filled with it one rests secure and suffers no harm.
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| 19:24 |
The lazy person buries a hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to the mouth.
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| 19:25 |
Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove the intelligent, and they will gain knowledge.
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| 19:26 |
Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
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| 19:27 |
Cease straying, my child, from the words of knowledge, in order that you may hear instruction.
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| 19:28 |
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
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| 19:29 |
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and flogging for the backs of fools.
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