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10 Lest, hearing it, they reproach you,
    and your ill repute never ceases.
11 Golden apples in silver settings
    are words spoken at the proper time.
12 A golden earring or a necklace of fine gold—
    one who gives wise reproof to a listening ear.

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10 or the one who hears it may shame you
    and the charge against you will stand.

11 Like apples[a] of gold in settings of silver(A)
    is a ruling rightly given.
12 Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold
    is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:11 Or possibly apricots