Proverbs 24:22 — parallel

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For they will suddenly punish the ungodly, and who can know the vengeance [inflicted] by both?

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

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[A son that keeps the commandment shall escape destruction; for [such an one] has fully received it.

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Let no falsehood be spoken by the king from the tongue; yea, let no falsehood proceed from his tongue.

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The king's tongue is a sword, and not one of flesh; and whosoever shall be given up to [it] shall be destroyed:

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for if his wrath should be provoked, he destroys men with cords,

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and devours men's bones, and burns them up as a flame, so that they are not [even] fit to be eaten by the young eagles.

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[My] son, reverence my words, and receive them, and repent.] These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease.

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For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men.

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God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy.

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Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children?

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For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him.

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Add not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a liar.

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Two things I ask of thee; take not favour from me before I die.

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Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth [or ] poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient:

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lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear [vainly ] by the name of God.

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Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be utterly destroyed.

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A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

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A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.

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A wicked generation have lofty eyes, and exalt themselves with their eyelids.

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A wicked generation have swords [for ] teeth and jaw-teeth [as ] knives, so as to destroy and devour the lowly from the earth, and the poor of them from among men.

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