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If the poor are hated even by their kin,
    how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.[a]
To get wisdom is to love oneself;
    to keep understanding is to prosper.
A false witness will not go unpunished,
    and the liar will perish.
10 It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury,
    much less for a slave to rule over princes.
11 Those with good sense are slow to anger,
    and it is their glory to overlook an offence.
12 A king’s anger is like the growling of a lion,
    but his favour is like dew on the grass.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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