Proverbs 10:1, From this chapter to the Proverbs 5:1 and Proverbs 20:1 are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.
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Proverbs 10
Proverbs 10 — Overview
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they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are
distichs, two sentences in one verse, illustrating each other; but it
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comfort of parents, natural, political, and ecclesiastical, depends
upon the good behaviour of those under their charge, as a reason, 1.
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