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- For lack of wood the fire goes out, And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.
- Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindle strife.
- The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
- Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross Are burning lips and a wicked heart.
- He who hates disguises it with his lips, But he lays up deceit in his heart.
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- たきぎがなければ 火が 消えるように, 陰口をたたく 者がなければ 爭いはやむ.
- おき 火に 炭を, 火にたきぎをくべるように, 爭い 好きな 人は 爭いをかき 立てる.
- 陰口をたたく 者のことばは, おいしい 食べ 物のようだ. 腹の 奧に 下っていく.
- 燃えるくちびるも, 心が 惡いと, 銀の 上藥を 塗った 土の 器のようだ.
- 憎む 者は, くちびるで 身を 裝い, 心のうちでは 欺きを 圖っている.
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- When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, For there are seven abominations in his heart.
- Though his hatred covers itself with guile, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.
- He who digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
- A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin.
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- 聲を 和らげて 語りかけても, それを 信じるな. その 心には 七つの 忌みきらわれるものがあるから.
- 憎しみは, うまくごまかし 隱せても, その 惡は 集會の 中に 現われる.
- 穴を 掘る 者は, 自分がその 穴に 陷り, 石をころがす 者は, 自分の 上にそれをころがす.
- 僞りの 舌は, 眞理を 憎み, へつらう 口は 滅びを 招く.
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