[615] Prov. xxv. 2-5.
[616] Prov. xxv. 6, 7.
[617] Prov. xxx. 31.
[618] Prov. xx. 2.
[619] Prov. xxiv. 21, 22.
[620] The LXX. of xxiv. 23, which adds a passage not appropriate to Christ, "Whosoever is delivered up to him shall be crushed. For if his temper be exasperated, he consumes men, sinews and all, and crunches their bones, and burns them up as a flame, so that they are uneatable to the young of eagles."
[621] Prov. xxviii. 15, 16.
[622] Prov. xi. 15. The image from steering survives in our own governor (gubernator).
[623] Prov. xx. 18.
[624] Prov. xv. 22.