Proverbs 22:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

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Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.

The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.