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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

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

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

[Men] do not despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

But [if] he is found, he shall restore seven-fold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

[But] whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Till a dart striketh 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 his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him;

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] 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.