OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 13:17

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17

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

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Verse 17. Of the. Hebrew “a wicked ambassador.” A king generally chooses people like himself. Menochius.—Septuagint have read melec. “A rash king shall,” and so forth

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