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My son, have you sinned? Do not add to it again, and make supplication concerning your former deeds.
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Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent; for if you approach, it shall bite you. Its teeth are lions’ teeth, destroying the beings of Adam.
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Every lawlessness is like a two-edged sword; its wound has no healing.
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Terror and violence lay wealth waste; so the house of the proud shall become desolate.
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The supplication of the poor goes from his mouth to His ears, and his Right-Ruling comes swiftly.
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One who hates correction walks in the track of a sinner, but one who reveres Yahuah turns back in heart.
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One mighty in tongue is known from afar, but one who understands knows when he slips.
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One who builds his house with the silver of others is like one gathering stones for his own burial mound.
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An assembly of lawless ones is gathered tow, and their completion is a flame of fire.
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The Way of sinners is paved smooth with stones, but at its end is the pit of Sheol.
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One who guards Torah masters his own intent, and the completion of reverence of Yahuah is Wisdom.
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One without discernment cannot be instructed, yet there is a cunning that multiplies bitterness.
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The knowledge of a wise one multiplies like a flood, and his counsel is like a fountain of life.
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The inward parts of a fool are like a shattered vessel; they hold no knowledge.
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When one who knows hears a wise word, he praises it and adds to it. A self-indulgent one hears it, and it displeases him, and he casts it behind his back.
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The explanation of a fool is like a burden on a journey, but favor is found upon the lips of one who understands.
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The mouth of a discerning one is sought in the assembly, and his words are considered in the heart.
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Wisdom is to a fool like a ruined house, and the knowledge of one without understanding is words without examination.
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Instruction is fetters upon the feet of one without sense and like shackles upon his right hand.
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A fool raises his voice in laughter, but a discerning ish smiles quietly and sparingly.
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Instruction is like a golden ornament to one who understands and like a bracelet upon his right arm.
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The foot of a fool is swift into a house, but an Adam of experience feels shame before its face.
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One without sense peers into a house from the door, but an instructed ish stands outside.
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It is lack of instruction for an Adam to listen beside a door, and the discerning one is grieved by such dishonor.
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The lips of strangers recount these things, but the words of the discerning are weighed in a balance.
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The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the mouth of wise ones is in their heart.
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When the profane curses the Adversary, he curses his own being.
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A whisperer defiles his own being and shall be hated wherever he dwells.