OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 13:18

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Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

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Verse 18. To him. Hebrew “destroy discipline,” so that the most wretched are often noted for immorality. Septuagint “instruction takes away poverty,” as “the whole earth supports the man that has a trade,” τεχνιον, according to the Greek proverb. Calmet.

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