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Proverbs 10:5

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He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

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Verse 5. He. Septuagint “a son well educated shall be wise, and shall have the unwise for his servant. An intelligent son has been saved from the heat. But the wicked son is destroyed by the wind in time of harvest.” Bible.—A good part of this is not in the original; yet it is received by the Greeks.

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