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- Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
- 2
- A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.
- 3
- Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
- 4
- If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.
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- There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:
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- folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.
- 7
- I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.
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- He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.
- 9
- He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them.
- 10
- If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
- 11
- If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.
- 12
- The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.
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- The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness.
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- A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?
- 15
- The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
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- Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
- 17
- Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 4
Kétéves:
- I. év: 2Sám 16
- II. év: Hós 9
- Zsid 6:1-20
- Zsolt 105:16-36
- Péld 27:1-2
Példabeszéd
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