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12 Words from the mouth of the wise win favor,
    but the lips of fools consume them.
13 (A)The beginning of their words is folly,
    and the end of their talk is utter madness;
14     yet fools multiply words.
No one knows what is to come,
    for who can tell anyone what will be?(B)

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12 Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious,(A)
    but fools are consumed by their own lips.(B)
13 At the beginning their words are folly;
    at the end they are wicked madness—
14     and fools multiply words.(C)

No one knows what is coming—
    who can tell someone else what will happen after them?(D)

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