Son, if thou be wise for thyself, thou shalt also be wise for thy neighbours; and if thou shouldest prove wicked, thou alone wilt bear the evil.
If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their flight:
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for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray;
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and he goes through a dry desert, and a [land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.
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