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Ecclesiastes 7:5-7
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5 You’ll get more from the rebuke of a sage
Than from the song and dance of fools.

6 The giggles of fools are like the crackling of twigs
Under the cooking pot. And like smoke.

7 Brutality stupefies even the wise
And destroys the strongest heart.

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