do not bring[a] hastily to court,
for what will you do in the end
    if your neighbor puts you to shame?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:8 Or nobles / on whom you had set your eyes. / Do not go

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
    if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

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21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

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22 In doing this, you will heap burning coals(A) on his head,
    and the Lord will reward you.(B)

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22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

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24 Better to live on a corner of the roof
    than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.(A)

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24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

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