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11 Sensible people control their temper;
    they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.

12 The king’s anger is like a lion’s roar,
    but his favor is like dew on the grass.

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11 A man’s (A)insight makes him slow to anger,
And it is his honor (B)to overlook a transgression.
12 The (C)king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is like (D)dew on the grass.

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19 Hot-tempered people must pay the penalty.
    If you rescue them once, you will have to do it again.

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19 A man of great wrath will bear the penalty,
For if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

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