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29One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn,
will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
²When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
³A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad,
but to keep company with prostitutes is to squander one’s substance.
⁴By justice a king gives stability to the land,
but one who makes heavy exactions ruins it.
⁵Whoever flatters a neighbor
is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.
⁶In the transgression of the evil there is a snare,
but the righteous sing and rejoice.
⁷The righteous know the rights of the poor;
the wicked have no such understanding.
⁸Scoffers set a city aflame,
but the wise turn away wrath.
⁹If the wise go to law with fools,
there is ranting and ridicule without relief.