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Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'
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And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
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They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
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Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.
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In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.
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Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
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Precious she [is] above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.
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Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, And all her paths [are] peace.
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The first thing [is] wisdom -- get wisdom, And with all thy getting get understanding.
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For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
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Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established.
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As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
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A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
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For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.
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Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
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And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
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For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
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In righteousness [are] all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.
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All of them [are] plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.
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For better [is] wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.
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By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.
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Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight -- day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,
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And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
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Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.
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In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips [is] only to want.
