diligently: Shochair:, properly, "rising early to seek" what is greatly desired.
he that seeketh: Proverbs 17:11; Esther 7:10; Psalms 7:15-16, Psalms 9:15-16, Psalms 10:2, Psalms 57:6
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Proverbs 11:27
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