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- These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging is not good:
- Whoever says to the guilty, "You are innocent"-- peoples will curse him and nations denounce him.
- But it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.
- An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
- Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.
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- Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, or use your lips to deceive.
- Do not say, "I'll do to him as he has done to me; I'll pay that man back for what he did."
- I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
- thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.
- I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:
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- A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-
- and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
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