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13 A wise child loves discipline,[a]
    but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
From the fruit of their words good people eat good things,
    but the desire of the treacherous is for wrongdoing.
Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives;
    those who open wide their lips come to ruin.

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  1. Proverbs 13:1 Cn: Heb A wise child the discipline of his father

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