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Chapter 1:33 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-1:1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
20-1:2. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
20-1:3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
20-1:4. To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
20-1:5. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
20-1:6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
20-1:7. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
20-1:8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
20-1:9. For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
20-1:10. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
20-1:11. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
20-1:12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
20-1:13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
20-1:14. Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
20-1:15. My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
20-1:16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
20-1:17. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
20-1:18. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
20-1:19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20-1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
20-1:21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
20-1:22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
20-1:23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
20-1:24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
20-1:25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
20-1:26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
20-1:27. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
20-1:28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
20-1:29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
20-1:30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
20-1:31. Therefore
shall they
eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
20-1:32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
20-1:33. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Proverbs 2:
Chapter 2:22 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-2:1. My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
20-2:2. So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
20-2:3. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
20-2:4. If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
20-2:5. Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
20-2:6. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
20-2:7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
20-2:8. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
20-2:9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
20-2:10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
20-2:11. Discretion
shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
20-2:12. To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
20-2:13. Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
20-2:14. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
20-2:15. Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
20-2:16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
20-2:17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
20-2:18. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
20-2:19. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20-2:20. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
20-2:21. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
20-2:22. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 3:
Chapter 3:35 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-3:1. My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
20-3:2. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
20-3:3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
20-3:4. So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
20-3:5. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
20-3:6. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
20-3:7. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
20-3:8. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
20-3:9. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
20-3:10. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
20-3:11. My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
20-3:12. For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
20-3:13. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
20-3:14. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
20-3:15. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
20-3:16. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
20-3:17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
20-3:18. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
20-3:19. The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
20-3:20. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
20-3:21. My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
20-3:22. So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
20-3:23. Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
20-3:24. When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
20-3:25. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
20-3:26. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
20-3:27. Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
20-3:28. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
20-3:29. Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
20-3:30. Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
20-3:31. Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
20-3:32. For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
20-3:33. The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
20-3:34. Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
20-3:35. The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 4:
Chapter 4:27 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-4:1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
20-4:2. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
20-4:3. For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
20-4:4. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
20-4:5. Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
20-4:6. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
20-4:7. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
20-4:8. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
20-4:9. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
20-4:10. Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
20-4:11. I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
20-4:12. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
20-4:13. Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
20-4:14. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
20-4:15. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
20-4:16. For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
20-4:17. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
20-4:18. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
20-4:19. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
20-4:20. My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
20-4:21. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
20-4:22. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
20-4:23. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
20-4:24. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
20-4:25. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
20-4:26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
20-4:27. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
Proverbs 5:
Chapter 5:23 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-5:1. My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
20-5:2. That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
20-5:3. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
20-5:4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
20-5:5. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
20-5:6. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
20-5:7. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
20-5:8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
20-5:9. Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
20-5:10. Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
20-5:11. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
20-5:12. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
20-5:13. And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
20-5:14. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
20-5:15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
20-5:16. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
20-5:17. Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
20-5:18. Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
20-5:19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20-5:20. And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
20-5:21. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
20-5:22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
20-5:23. He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs 6:
Chapter 6:35 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-6:1. My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
20-6:2. Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
20-6:3. Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
20-6:4. Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
20-6:5. Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
20-6:6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
20-6:7. Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
20-6:8. Provideth
her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
20-6:9. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?
when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
20-6:10. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
20-6:11. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
20-6:12. A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
20-6:13. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
20-6:14. Frowardness
is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
20-6:15. Therefore
shall his
calamity come
suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
20-6:16. These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
20-6:17. A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
20-6:18. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
20-6:19. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20-6:20. My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
20-6:21. Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
20-6:22. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
20-6:23. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
20-6:24. To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
20-6:25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
20-6:26. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
20-6:27. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
20-6:28. Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
20-6:29. So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
20-6:30. Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
20-6:31. But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
20-6:32. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
20-6:33. A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
20-6:34. For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
20-6:35. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 7:
Chapter 7:27 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-7:1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
20-7:2. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
20-7:3. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
20-7:4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
20-7:5. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
20-7:6. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
20-7:7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
20-7:8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
20-7:9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
20-7:10. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
20-7:11. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
20-7:12. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
20-7:13. So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
20-7:14. I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
20-7:15. Therefore
came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
20-7:16. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
20-7:17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
20-7:18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
20-7:19. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20-7:20. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
20-7:21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
20-7:22. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
20-7:23. Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
20-7:24. Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
20-7:25. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
20-7:26. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
20-7:27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 8:
Chapter 8:36 Verses
20 Proverbs
and understanding put forth her voice?
20-8:2. She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
20-8:3. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
20-8:4. Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
20-8:5. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
20-8:6. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
20-8:7. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
20-8:8. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
20-8:9. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
20-8:10. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
20-8:11. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
20-8:12. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
20-8:13. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
20-8:14. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
20-8:15. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
20-8:16. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
20-8:17. I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
20-8:18. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
20-8:19. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20-8:20. I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
20-8:21. That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
20-8:22. The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
20-8:23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
20-8:24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
20-8:25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
20-8:26. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
20-8:27. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
20-8:28. When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
20-8:29. When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
20-8:30. Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
20-8:31. Rejoicing
in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
20-8:32. Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
20-8:33. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
20-8:34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
20-8:35. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
20-8:36. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 9:
Chapter 9:18 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-9:1. Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
20-9:2. She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
20-9:3. She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
20-9:4. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
20-9:5. Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
20-9:6. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
20-9:7. He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
20-9:8. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
20-9:9. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
20-9:10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
20-9:11. For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
20-9:12. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
20-9:13. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
20-9:14. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
20-9:15. To call passengers who go right on their ways:
20-9:16. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
20-9:17. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
20-9:18. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 10:
Chapter 10:32 Verses
20 Proverbs
20-10:1. The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
20-10:2. Treasures
of wickedness
profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
20-10:3. The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
20-10:4. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
20-10:5. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
20-10:6. Blessings
are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
20-10:7. The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
20-10:8. The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
20-10:9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
20-10:10. He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
20-10:11. The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
20-10:12. Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
20-10:13. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
20-10:14. Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
20-10:15. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
20-10:16. The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
20-10:17. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
20-10:18. He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
20-10:19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
20-10:20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
20-10:21. The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
20-10:22. The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
20-10:23. It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
20-10:24. The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
20-10:25. As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
20-10:26. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
20-10:27. The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
20-10:28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
20-10:29. The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
20-10:30. The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
20-10:31. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
20-10:32. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
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