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Why should you destroy yourself?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"text":"Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"text":"It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your hand. For he who fears God will follow both warnings.","footnotes":[{"noteId":7,"offset":118,"text":"Or will avoid all extremes","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":19,"text":"Wisdom makes the wise man\nstronger than ten rulers in a city.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":25,"level":1},{"start":26,"end":61,"level":2}]},{"type":"verse","number":20,"text":"Surely there is no righteous man on earth\nwho does good and never sins.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":41,"level":1},{"start":42,"end":71,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":21,"text":"Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":22,"text":"For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":23,"text":"All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":24,"text":"What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?","footnotes":[]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":25,"text":"I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":26,"text":"And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. 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