| Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. | Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. |
| Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. | He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. |
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| The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. | The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. |
| A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. |
| But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. | But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. |
| The Lord watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. | The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. |
| Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” | Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. |
| The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers. | The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. |
| With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. | An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. |
| Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. | Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. |
