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“How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—
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who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
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For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
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By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;
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For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly.
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For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,
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Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
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At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
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when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
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Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
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rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.
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“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”
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Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value, but righteousness delivers from death.
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Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.
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A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes, but a person of understanding delights in wisdom.
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The righteous will never be uprooted, but the wicked will not remain in the land.
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Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.
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With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.
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For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.
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The Lord detests those whose hearts are perverse, but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.
