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Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
931 BC
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 1:18
931 BC
He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
Proverbs 13:24
686 BC
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9 · 570 BC
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Proverbs 18:13
686 BC