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Love Righteousness, you who judge the earth. Think of Yahuah with goodness, and seek Him in singleness of heart.
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For He is found by those who do not test Him, and He reveals Himself to those who do not distrust Him.
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For crooked thoughts separate from Elohim, and His Power, when tested, corrects the foolish.
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For wisdom will not enter a being that devises evil, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin.
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For the holy Ruach of discipline will flee deceit, will withdraw from thoughts without understanding, and will be put to confusion when crookedness approaches.
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For wisdom is a ruach that loves Adam, yet she will not hold innocent the blasphemer because of his lips. For Elohim is witness of his inward parts, a true observer of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.
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For the Ruach of Yahuah fills the inhabited earth, and that which holds all things together knows every voice.
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Therefore no one who speaks crooked things shall be hidden, nor shall correcting Judgment pass him by.
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For inquiry shall be made into the counsels of the wicked, and the report of his words shall come before Yahuah for the correction of his lawlessness.
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For the ear of jealousy hears all things, and the sound of murmuring is not hidden.
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Therefore guard yourselves from worthless murmuring, and restrain your tongue from slander. For no secret word shall go forth empty, and a lying mouth destroys the being.
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Do not seek death through the wandering of your life, and do not draw destruction upon yourselves by the works of your hands.
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For Elohim did not make death, nor does He delight in the destruction of the living.
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For He created all things that they might exist, and the generations of the world are wholesome. There is no poison of destruction in them, nor does Sheol possess a kingdom upon the earth.
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For Righteousness is immortal.
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But the wicked summoned death by their hands and by their words. Thinking it a companion, they wasted away for it, and they made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to belong to its portion.