18 For it is pleasing if you keep them within you
and if[a] they are constantly on your lips.
19 I have instructed you today—even you—
so that your confidence may be in the Lord.
20 Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings[b]
about counsel and knowledge,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:18 Or you; let them be, or you, so that
  2. Proverbs 22:20 Text emended; one Hb tradition reads you previously; alt Hb tradition reads you excellent things; LXX, Syr, Vg read you three times

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