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23 Guard your words, mind what you say,
    and you will keep yourself out of trouble.
24 The name “mocker” applies to one who is proud and pompous
    because he is defiantly arrogant.
25 What slackers crave will surely kill them
    because they refuse to work.

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23 Those who guard their mouths(A) and their tongues
    keep themselves from calamity.(B)

24 The proud and arrogant person(C)—“Mocker” is his name—
    behaves with insolent fury.

25 The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,(D)
    because his hands refuse to work.

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