scorner: Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 9:7-8; Amos 5:10; John 3:18-21, John 7:7; 2 Timothy 4:3
neither: 2 Chronicles 18:7; Job 21:14
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Proverbs 15:12
Proverbs 15:12
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