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Proverbs 14:11

Proverbs 14:11

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house: Proverbs 3:33, Proverbs 12:7, Proverbs 21:12; Job 8:15, Job 15:34, Job 18:14-15, Job 18:21, Job 20:26-28, Job 21:28; Job 27:13-23; Zechariah 5:4; Matthew 7:26-27

the tabernacle: Proverbs 11:28, Proverbs 21:20; Job 8:6; Psalms 112:2-3, Psalms 128:3; Isaiah 58:11-12

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