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13 On the lips of the intelligent is found wisdom,
    but a rod for the back of one without sense.[a]
14 The wise store up knowledge,
    but the mouth of a fool is imminent ruin.
15 The wealth of the rich is their strong city;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:13 An unusual juxtaposition of “lips” and “back.” Those who have no wisdom on their lips (words) are fated to feel a punishing rod on their back.
  2. 10:15 An observation rather than a moral evaluation of wealth and poverty; but cf. 18:10–11.