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27 A loudmouthed and talkative wife
        is like a battle trumpet
        sounding an attack.
    The spirit of the man
    who lives under such conditions
        lives perpetually in the chaos
        of the battlefield.

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28 My heart has been saddened
by two things,
        and I was made angry because of a third:
    a warrior who is needy
    and impoverished,
    intelligent people who are treated
    with contempt,
    and people who are turned
    from righteousness to sin—
        the Lord will prepare them
        for the sword.

29 A merchant will scarcely be kept
from wrongdoing,
    and a retailer won’t be innocent of sin.

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