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10 In deeming be thou merciful as a father to fatherless children, and be thou for an husband to the mother of them; and thou shalt be as an obedient [or as an obeisant] son of the Highest, and he shall have mercy on thee more than a mother hath mercy on her child.

11 Wisdom inspireth life to his sons, and receiveth men seeking him, and shall go before in the way of rightfulness; [Wisdom to his sons inbreathed life, and receiveth the men out seeking him, and he shall go before in the way of rightwiseness;]

12 and he that loveth that wisdom, loveth life, and they that wake to it, shall embrace the peaceableness, either sweetness, thereof. [and he that loveth it, loveth life, and that wake to it, shall embrace (al)together the gladness, or peaceableness, of it.]

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