12 Before a downfall the heart is haughty,
    but humility comes before honor.(A)

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12 Pride comes before a disaster,
    but humility comes before respect.

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14 The human spirit can endure in sickness,
    but a crushed spirit who can bear?(A)

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14 The human spirit sustains a sick person,
    but who can bear a broken spirit?

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A person’s own folly(A) leads to their ruin,
    yet their heart rages against the Lord.(B)

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People’s own folly corrupts their way,
    but their hearts rage against the Lord.

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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 Listen to advice and accept instruction,
    so you might grow wise in the future.

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The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters,(A)
    but one who has insight draws them out.

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Advice comes from the deep waters of the heart;
    those with understanding can draw it out.

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27 The human spirit is[a] the lamp of the Lord(A)
    that sheds light on one’s inmost being.(B)

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 20:27 Or A person’s words are

27 The breath of a person is the lamp of the Lord,
    searching all the inmost parts.

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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)

A person may think their own ways are right,
    but the Lord weighs the heart.(B)

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21 The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord;
    he directs it wherever he wants.
Everyone’s path is straight in their own eyes,
    but the Lord weighs the heart.

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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 Those who love a pure heart—
    their speech is gracious, and the king is their friend.

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Saying 12

12 Apply your heart to instruction(A)
    and your ears to words of knowledge.

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12 Bring your mind to instruction,
    your ear to knowledgeable sayings.

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11 Rescue those being led away to death;
    hold back those staggering toward slaughter.(A)
12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
    does not he who weighs(B) the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
    Will he not repay(C) everyone according to what they have done?(D)

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11 Rescue those being taken off to death;
    and from those staggering to the slaughter, don’t hold back.
12 If you say, “Look, we didn’t know about it,”
    the one who weighs hearts—doesn’t he understand?
    The one who protects your life—he knows.
    He makes people pay for their actions.

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Saying 28

17 Do not gloat(A) when your enemy falls;
    when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice,(B)
18 or the Lord will see and disapprove
    and turn his wrath away from them.(C)

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17 When your enemies fall, don’t rejoice.
    When they stumble, don’t let your heart be glad,
18 or the Lord will see it and be displeased,
    and he will turn his anger from them.

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Saying 29

19 Do not fret(A) because of evildoers
    or be envious of the wicked,
20 for the evildoer has no future hope,
    and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.(B)

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19 Don’t get fighting mad at evil people;
    don’t be envious of the wicked.
20 Indeed, there is no future for the evil;
    the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

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