“There is gold and abundance of rubies,but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.”
Proverbs 20:15 (WEB)
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13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. 14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;but when he is gone his way, then he boasts. 15There is gold and abundance of rubies,but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. 16Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. 17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.