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Proverbs 26:16-18
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16 The idler considers himself to be more wise
    than seven men who can offer a sensible reply.

How Human Relations Are Perverted[a]

17 Like one who lifts up a stray dog by the ears
    is he who meddles in another person’s quarrel.
18 Like a madman shooting at random
    his deadly firebrands and arrows,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:17 Once anger has allowed it to come to the fore, when will the demon of divisiveness, falsehood, and calumny come to a halt? As fine psychologists, the ancients had noticed how such tendencies deaden the human heart in the manner of a bad ineradicable herb.
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