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29:1  The man that does not receive rebuke and hardens his neck will quickly be ruined and there will be no healing for him.
29:2  By the multitude of the righteous, the people increase, and by the authority of the evil, the people will groan.
29:3  A man that loves wisdom gladdens his father and he that traffics with prostitution will destroy his possessions.
29:4  The king by judgment establishes the land, and the evil one deprives it.
29:5  A man that is duplicitous with his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
29:6  An evil man is caught in his evil and the righteous will sing and rejoice.
29:7  For the righteous knows the justice of the poor and the evil does not recognize knowledge.
29:8  Men that are mockers burn up fortress cities and the wise turn back wrath.
29:9  A wise man debates with a fool, and he is passionate and laughs and is not enraged.
29:10  Men that are shedders of blood hate The Pure One and the righteous love him.
29:11  The fool expresses all his anger and the wise thinks with his mind.
29:12  All the Servants of a Prince that hears a lying word are evil.
29:13  The poor and the oppressor have met each other, and Lord Jehovah enlightens the eyes of both.
29:14  The throne of the King that judges in truth will be established in justice.
29:15  A rod and reproof give wisdom and a boy without discipline shames his mother.
29:16  In the abundance of the evil ones, evil increases, and the righteous will rejoice in their fall.
29:17  Discipline your son, and he will comfort you, and delight your soul.
29:18  In the multitude of the evil ones a people is breached and he that keeps the law is blessed.
29:19  A Servant is not disciplined by words, for he knows that he will not be beaten.
29:20  If you have seen a man hasty in his words, know that a fool is better than he.
29:21  He that is pampered from his childhood will be a Servant, and at his end he will groan.
29:22  An angry man stirs up judgment and a furious man increases evil.
29:23  The pride of a son of man will humiliate him and his humility will increase honor to him.
29:24  He that partakes with the thief hates his soul and they put him under oath and he does not confess.
29:25  The evil of a man makes him a scandal and he that trusts upon Lord Jehovah will prevail.
29:26  Many seek the face of a Ruler and the judgment of a man proceeds from Lord Jehovah.
29:27  An evil man is defiled to the righteous, and the right way is defiled to the evil ones.