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Rh :When thou smitest a scorner, the simple will become prudent;
 * And when one that hath understanding is reproved, he will understand knowledge.


 * A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully
 * Will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.


 * Cease, my son, to hear the instruction
 * That causeth to err from the words of knowledge.


 * An ungodly witness mocketh at right;
 * And the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.


 * Judgments are prepared for scorners,
 * And stripes for the back of fools.


 * Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous;
 * And whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.


 * The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
 * He that provoketh him to anger forfeiteth his life.


 * It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife;
 * But every fool will be snarling.


 * The sluggard will not plow when winter setteth in;
 * Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.


 * Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;
 * But a man of understanding will draw it out.


 * Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness;
 * But a faithful man who can find?


 * He that walketh in his integrity as a just man,
 * Happy are his children after him.


 * A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment
 * Scattereth away all evil with his eyes.


 * Who can say: 'I have made my heart clean,
 * I am pure from my sin'?


 * Divers weights, and divers measures,
 * Both of them alike are abomination to the.


 * Even a child is known by his doings,
 * Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.


 * The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
 * The hath made even both of them.


 * Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
 * Open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread in plenty.


 * 'It is bad, it is bad', saith the buyer;
 * But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.


 * There is gold, and a multitude of rubies;
 * But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.


 * Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;
 * And hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.