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His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he maketh signs with his fingers;

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; he soweth discord.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken and that without remedy.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

So he that goeth in to his nieghbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.

Wounds and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth:

Then I was by him, as a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

Rejoicing in his habitable earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.