28 (A)Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
[a]For would you deceive with your lips?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:28 LXX, Vg. Do not deceive

28 Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.(A)
Don’t deceive with your lips.

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Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
Than one perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

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Better the poor person who lives with integrity(A)
than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:6 Lit who twists two ways

13 (A)He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

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13 The one who conceals his sins
will not prosper,(A)
but whoever confesses and renounces them
will find mercy.(B)

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23 (A)He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

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23 One who rebukes a person will later find more favor(A)
than one who flatters with his tongue.(B)

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