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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And filled are thy barns `with' plenty, And `with' new wine thy presses break forth. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Chastisement of Jehovah, my son, despise not, And be not vexed with His reproof, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData O the happiness of a man `who' hath found wisdom, And of a man `who' bringeth forth understanding. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For better `is' her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData A tree of life she `is' to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her `is' happy. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Then thou goest thy way confidently, And thy foot doth not stumble. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Be not afraid of sudden fear, And of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand `is' toward God to do `it'. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Say not thou to thy friend, `Go, and return, and to-morrow I give,' And substance with thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData For an abomination to Jehovah `is' the perverted, And with the upright `is' His secret counsel. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData The curse of Jehovah `is' in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData If the scorners He doth scorn, Yet to the humble He doth give grace. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2Younhs_EN_Bible:TextData Honour do the wise inherit, And fools are bearing away shame! |