Proverbs 10

1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
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2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
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3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the substance of the wicked.
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4 He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
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5 He that gathers in summer is a wise son: but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.
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6 Blessings are on the head of the just: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
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7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
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8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
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9 He that walks uprightly walks surely: but he that perverts his ways shall be known.
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10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
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11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
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12 Hatred stirs up strifes: but love covers all sins.
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13 In the lips of him that has understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
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14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
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15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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16 The labor of the righteous tends to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
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17 He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses reproof errs.
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18 He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.
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19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.
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20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
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21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
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22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
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23 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding has wisdom.
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24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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25 As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
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26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
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27 The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
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29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
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30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
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31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom: but the fraudulent tongue shall be cut out.
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32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaks frowardness.
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