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Leave the presence of a fool,
    for there you do not find words of knowledge.
It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go,
    but the folly of fools misleads.
Fools mock at the guilt-offering,[a]
    but the upright enjoy God’s favour.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:9 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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