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12 It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool caught in his folly.

13 If you repay evil for good, a curse is upon your home.

14 It is hard to stop a quarrel once it starts,[a] so don’t let it begin.

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  1. Proverbs 17:14 It is hard to stop a quarrel once it starts, literally, “as when one lets out water.”

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