19 (A)Better is a poor person who (B)walks in his integrity
    than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

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15 (A)My son, if your heart is wise,
    my heart too will be glad.
16 My (B)inmost being[a] will exult
    when your lips speak (C)what is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:16 Hebrew My kidneys

24 Be not (A)envious of evil men,
    nor desire to be (B)with them,
for their hearts (C)devise violence,
    and their lips (D)talk of trouble.

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Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless,
    is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

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