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

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12 Before destruction one’s heart is haughty,
    but humility goes before honor.(A)

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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 will endure sickness,
    but a broken spirit—who can bear?

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

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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,
    that you may gain wisdom for the future.(A)

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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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The purposes in the human mind are like deep water,
    but the intelligent will draw them out.(A)

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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 human spirit is the lamp of the Lord,
    searching every inmost part.(A)

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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 a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
    he turns it wherever he will.
All deeds are right in the sight of the doer,
    but the Lord weighs the heart.(A)

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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 and are gracious in speech
    will have the king as a friend.(A)

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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 Apply your mind to instruction
    and your ear to words of knowledge.(A)

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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 if you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death,
    those who go staggering to the slaughter;(A)
12 if you say, “Look, we did not know this”—
    does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it?
    And will he not repay all according to their deeds?(B)

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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 Do not rejoice when your enemies fall,
    and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble,(A)
18 lest the Lord see it and be displeased
    and turn away 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 Do not fret because of evildoers.
    Do not envy the wicked,(A)
20 for the evil have no future;
    the lamp of the wicked will go out.(B)

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