Proverbs 22:20

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Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,

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The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure, silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;

The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

Were I to write for him my laws by ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.