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Proverbs 20:22

“Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.”

Verse in context — Proverbs 20

20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

21

An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

22

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

23

Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.

24

Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

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