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Scripture Context
Proverbs 9:15 - Proverbs 10:6
15 To call passengers who go right on their ways;
16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 10
Intro: Sundry virtues and vices.
1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
3 The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son; but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
6 Blessings are upon the head of the just; but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.