OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 1:5

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that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;

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Verse 5. Wiser. “Tamdiu audiendum & discendum est, quamdiu nescias, & si proverbio credimus, quamdiu vivas,” says Seneca, ep. 77.—Governments. And be fit to govern others, ( Worthington.) as well as himself. Calmet.

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