Ecclesiastes 10:9
Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.
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18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
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9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
10 One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.
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15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
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5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
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19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
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9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
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6 One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
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2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
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33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
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9 Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.
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18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
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12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
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12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
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13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
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18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
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5 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
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11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
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3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
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7 He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
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17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.