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Proverbs 20:22

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Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

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  1. Proverbs 20:20

    Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

  2. Proverbs 20:21

    An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

  3. Proverbs 20:23

    Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

  4. Proverbs 20:24

    Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.