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I won’t be selfish or allow jealousy to make me keep this to myself, for jealousy has nothing to do with wisdom.
Love the light of wisdom, all ye that bear rule over peoples.
No jealous desire to guard my own knowledge will make me hold back anything. Wisdom has nothing in common with such an attitude.
Neither shall I admit consuming jealousy to my company, because that can have no fellowship with Wisdom.
Nor will I allow corrosive envy to accompany me, for it has nothing in common with Wisdom.
nor will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
nor will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
nor will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
nor will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
neither will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
neither will I travel in the company of sickly envy, for envy does not associate with wisdom.
And I shall not have (or go) (the) way with envy waxing rotten; for such a man shall not be a partner of (or with) wisdom. [Nor with the quittering (or rotting) envy way I shall have; for such a man shall be partner of wisdom.]
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