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10 Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out;
    quarrel and abuse will cease.

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10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out;
Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

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10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
    quarrels and insults are ended.(A)

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Words of the Wise

17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise;
    you shall apply your heart[a] to my teaching.
18 For it is pleasant if you guard them within you;[b]
    together they will be ready upon your lips.
19 In order for your trust to be in Yahweh,
    I have made them known to you today[c]—even[d] you.
20 Have I not written for you thirty sayings
    with admonitions and knowledge?
21 In order to show you what is right—sayings of truth—
    in order to return a true saying to him who sent you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:17 Or “mind”
  2. Proverbs 22:18 Literally “in your belly/womb”
  3. Proverbs 22:19 Literally “the day”
  4. Proverbs 22:19 Or “only”

17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,
And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee,
If they be established together upon thy lips.
19 That thy trust may be in Jehovah,
I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
20 Have not I written unto thee [a]excellent things
[b]Of counsels and knowledge,
21 To make thee know [c]the certainty of the words of truth,
That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:20 The word is doubtful. Another reading is, heretofore
  2. Proverbs 22:20 Or, In
  3. Proverbs 22:21 Or, of a certainty the words etc.

Thirty Sayings of the Wise

Saying 1

17 Pay attention(A) and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;(B)
    apply your heart to what I teach,(C)
18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart
    and have all of them ready on your lips.
19 So that your trust may be in the Lord,
    I teach you today, even you.
20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you,
    sayings of counsel and knowledge,
21 teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,(D)
    so that you bring back truthful reports
    to those you serve?

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