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Proverbs 26:15-25

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15The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
16The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
17He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.
18As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
19So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
20Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
21Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
22The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
23Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
24With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;
25When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:

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