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For why wisdom shall not enter into an evil-willed soul; neither it shall dwell in a body subject to sins. [For into an evil-willing soul shall not go in wisdom; nor shall dwell in a body subject to sins.]

Forsooth the Holy Ghost of wisdom shall fly or flee away from a feigned man, and he shall take away himself from thoughts, that be without understanding; and the unwise man shall be punished of (or by) wickedness coming above (or upon him). [An holy spirit forsooth shall flee the feigner, or the feigned thing, of discipline, and shall take himself away from thoughts, that be without understanding; and he shall be chastised from the over-coming wickedness.]

For the spirit of wisdom is benign, and he shall not deliver a cursed man from his lips; for why God is witness of his reins, and the searcher of his heart is true, and the hearer of his tongue.

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