Proverbs

⁹Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.] ¹⁰Diverse weights [one for buying and another for selling] and diverse measures–both of them are exceedingly offensive and abhorrent to the Lord. [Deut. 25:13; Mic. 6:10, 11.] ¹¹Even a child is known by his acts, whether [or not] what he does is pure and right. ¹²The hearing ear and the seeing eye–the Lord has made both of them. ¹³Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread. ¹⁴It is worthless, it is worthless! says the buyer; but when he goes his way, then he boasts [about his bargain]. ¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of pearls, but the lips of knowledge are a vase of preciousness [the most precious of all]. [Job 28:12, 16-19; Prov. 3:15; 8:11.]