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20 Do you see someone who is too eager to speak?
    There is more hope for a fool than for him.
21 If you pamper a slave from his childhood,
    in the end he will prove ungrateful.[a]
22 A bad-tempered man provokes quarrels,
    and a hothead commits a host of offenses.

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  1. Proverbs 29:21 Vulgate reading; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

20 Do you see someone who speaks in haste?
    There is more hope for a fool than for them.(A)

21 A servant pampered from youth
    will turn out to be insolent.

22 An angry person stirs up conflict,
    and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.(B)

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