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16 Keep the commandments and keep your life;
    despising them leads to death.

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16 Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
    but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.(A)

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20 Get all the advice and instruction you can,
    so you will be wise the rest of your life.

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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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25 If you punish a mocker, the simpleminded will learn a lesson;
    if you correct the wise, they will be all the wiser.

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25 Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;
    rebuke the discerning,(A) and they will gain knowledge.(B)

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27 If you stop listening to instruction, my child,
    you will turn your back on knowledge.

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27 Stop listening to instruction, my son,(A)
    and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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