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One who takes vengeance shall find vengeance from Yahuah, and He shall strictly preserve his sins.
2
Forgive the injustice of your neighbor, and then, when you make supplication, your sins shall be released.
3
An Adam preserves wrath against an Adam, yet seeks healing from Yahuah?
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He has no compassion upon an Adam like himself, yet makes supplication concerning his own sins?
5
He himself is flesh and preserves resentment; who shall make atonement for his sins?
6
Remember the last things and cease from enmity; remember corruption and death, and remain within the Commands.
7
Remember the Commands and do not resent your neighbor; remember the Covenant of El Elyon and overlook error.
8
Abstain from quarrel, and you shall diminish sins; for a wrathful Adam kindles quarrel.
9
A sinful ish troubles companions and casts slander among those at shalom.
10
According to the fuel, so the fire burns, and according to the stubbornness of quarrel, so it blazes. According to an Adam’s strength is his wrath, and according to his wealth he raises his anger.
11
A quarrel hastily begun kindles fire, and a fight hastily begun pours out blood.
12
If you blow upon a spark, it burns; if you spit upon it, it is extinguished; and both come from your mouth.
13
Curse the whisperer and the double-tongued, for he has destroyed many who were at shalom.
14
A third tongue has shaken many and scattered them from nation to nation; it has torn down fortified cities and overturned the houses of great ones.
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A third tongue has cast out capable women and deprived them of their labors.
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One who attends to it shall not find rest and shall not dwell in quietness.
17
A lash-stroke makes a bruise, but a tongue-stroke shatters bones.
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Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as have fallen because of the tongue.
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Blessed is one sheltered from it, who has not passed through its wrath, who has not drawn its yoke and has not been bound in its chains.
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For its yoke is a yoke of iron, and its chains are chains of bronze.
21
Its death is an evil death, and Sheol is preferable to it.
22
It shall not rule the reverent, and they shall not burn in its flame.
23
Those who forsake Yahuah shall fall into it; it shall burn among them and not be extinguished. It is sent against them like a lion, and like a leopard it destroys them.
24
Behold, hedge your possession with thorns; bind up your silver and your gold.
25
Make a balance and weight for your words, and make a door and bar for your mouth.
26
Guard yourself lest you slip through it and fall before one lying in wait.