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Through wisdom a house is built;
    by understanding it is established;

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By wisdom a house is built,
    and by understanding it is established.

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Wisdom is too high for a fool.
    He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

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Wisdom is too high for fools;
    at the gate he will not open his mouth.

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13 My son, eat honey, for it is good,
    the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul.
    If you have found it, then there will be a reward:
    Your hope will not be cut off.

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13 My child, eat honey, for it is good,
    and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
14 Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul,[a]
    if you find it, then there is a future,
    and your hope will not be cut off.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:14 Or “life,” or “inner self”