OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 18:1

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A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

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Verse 1. Reproach. True friendship resembles charity, and bears all things. 1 Corinthians 13:4. Hebrew now reads Thave, “desire;” instead of Thuane, occasion, or “pretext,” which must have been in the copies of the Septuagint and Vulg. Calmet.—Prot. “through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.” The solitary seeks heaven. Bible.

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