| Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin. | Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin. |
| The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin. | The wise of heart will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. |
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| One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. | Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. |
| Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. | But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. |
| Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. | Repent and turn from all your transgressions; otherwise iniquity will be your ruin. |
| The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless, but it is the ruin of those who do evil. | The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright, but destruction for evildoers. |
| The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked. | The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. |
| Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” | Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” |
| With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape. | With their mouths the godless would destroy their neighbors, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. |
| If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. | For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever. |
| Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. | Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. |
