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Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom.
    Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
Then you will have healing for your body
    and strength for your bones.

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7-8 Don’t be conceited, sure of your own wisdom. Instead, trust and reverence the Lord, and turn your back on evil; when you do that, then you will be given renewed health and vitality.

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29 The way of the Lord is a stronghold to those with integrity,
    but it destroys the wicked.

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29 God protects the upright but destroys the wicked.

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When the wicked die, their hopes die with them,
    for they rely on their own feeble strength.

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When an evil man dies, his hopes all perish, for they are based upon this earthly life.

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22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.

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22 A cheerful heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit makes one sick.

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10 The name of the Lord is a strong fortress;
    the godly run to him and are safe.

11 The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense;
    they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.

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10 The Lord[a] is a strong fortress. The godly run to him and are safe.

11 The rich man thinks of his wealth as an impregnable defense, a high wall of safety. What a dreamer!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 18:10 The Lord, literally, “The name of the Lord.”

29 The glory of the young is their strength;
    the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old.

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29 The glory of young men is their strength; of old men, their experience.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:29 their experience, literally, “the hoary head.”

22 The wise conquer the city of the strong
    and level the fortress in which they trust.

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22 The wise man conquers the strong man and levels his defenses.

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A house is built by wisdom
    and becomes strong through good sense.

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3-4 Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.

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The wise are mightier than the strong,[a]
    and those with knowledge grow stronger and stronger.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:5 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads A wise man is strength.

A wise man is mightier than a strong man. Wisdom is mightier than strength.

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10 If you fail under pressure,
    your strength is too small.

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10 You are a poor specimen if you can’t stand the pressure of adversity.

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25 Ants—they aren’t strong,
    but they store up food all summer.

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24-28 There are four things that are small but unusually wise:

Ants: they aren’t strong, but store up food for the winter.

Cliff badgers: delicate little animals who protect themselves by living among the rocks.

The locusts: though they have no leader, they stay together in swarms.

The lizards: they are easy to catch and kill, yet are found even in king’s palaces!

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17 She is energetic and strong,
    a hard worker.

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17 She is energetic, a hard worker,

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25 She is clothed with strength and dignity,
    and she laughs without fear of the future.

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25 She is a woman of strength and dignity and has no fear of old age.

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