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Gray hair is a crown of beauty when it is found in the way of righteousness.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

But will God really dwell with mankind on the earth? Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, cannot contain you; how much less, then, this house that I have built!

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. And the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.

Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable.
Speak out in order to judge with righteousness and to defend the needy and the poor.

Happy is the man that has found wisdom … It is a tree of life to those taking hold of it, and those keeping fast hold of it are to be called happy.

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be heard.

The name of Jehovah is a strong tower. Into it the righteous runs and is given protection.

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

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