OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 14:15

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15

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

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Verse 15. Innocent. Good and unsuspecting; (Joshua 9:14 and 1 Corinthians 13:7) or rather credulous. 1 John 4:1. Calmet.—Septuagint “the man who is not bad.”—Steps. Septuagint “repenteth.” Bible.—No, and so forth This occurs (Calmet. 13:13) in several copies: but here it is omitted in Hebrew and so forth

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