10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
    more than a hundred lashes a fool.

11 Evildoers foster rebellion against God;
    the messenger of death will be sent against them.

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10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

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20 Listen to advice and accept discipline,(A)
    and at the end you will be counted among the wise.(B)

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20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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27 Stop listening to instruction, my son,(A)
    and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

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A king’s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion;(A)
    those who anger him forfeit their lives.(B)

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The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

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Many claim to have unfailing love,
    but a faithful person who can find?(A)

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Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

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When a king sits on his throne to judge,(A)
    he winnows out all evil with his eyes.(B)

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A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

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11 Even small children are known by their actions,
    so is their conduct really pure(A) and upright?

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11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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30 Blows and wounds scrub(A) away evil,
    and beatings(B) purge the inmost being.

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30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

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21 In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water
    that he channels toward all who please him.(A)

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21 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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11 One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace
    will have the king for a friend.(A)

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11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

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It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
    to search out a matter is the glory of kings.(A)
As the heavens are high and the earth is deep,
    so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

Remove the dross from the silver,
    and a silversmith can produce a vessel;
remove wicked officials from the king’s presence,(B)
    and his throne will be established(C) through righteousness.(D)

Do not exalt yourself in the king’s presence,
    and do not claim a place among his great men;
it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,”(E)
    than for him to humiliate you before his nobles.

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It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

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18 The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,(A)
    and whoever protects their master will be honored.(B)

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18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

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