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8.  Better is a little with righteousness Than great revenues with injustice. 9.  Man devises his way, But Yahweh directs his steps. 1. Antithetic, ternary (or, binary). This proverb is identical in meaning with v. 9, and with our “man proposes, God disposes”; see Malan for Chinese and other parallels. Plans is arrangements (RV. preparations); mind is lit. heart; the answer of the tongue = the final outcome of one’s reflections and purposes. To regard the couplet as contrasting merely thought and
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