Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

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Fragment 1 (2) . . . with a fruitful man . . . (3) outside and chooses to build it, and he covers his wall
with plaster, as well as . . . (4) it will fall off under the rain. Don't take legal instruction from a
deceitful person and don't go, young man, with someone who is unsta[b]le. (5) For just as lead melts,
so before a fire he will not stand. (6) Do not put a slackard in charge of an important task, for he will
not carry out your charge. And don't send (him) to pick (7) some[thing] up, for he will not pay
attention to your specifications. Do not tr[ust] the complainer (8) to get provisions for your needs. Do
not trust the man of cunning lips . . . (9) your Judge[m]ents. He will certainly speak deviously, not
being zealous for Truth . . . (10) with the fruit of his lips . . . Do not put the man with a covetous eye
in charge of Rich[es . . .] (11) And arrange what remains to suit yourself . . . your dead (?) . . . (12)
and in the time of the harvest he will be found unworthy, quick to anger . . . (13) Kittim, because he
will surely swallow them . . . A man...
Fragment 2 (1) and will not do his work carefully. The man who judges before investigating is like
someone who believes before ... (2) Do not give him authority over those pursuing Knowledge, for he
will not understand their judgement, to justify the Righteous and condemn [the Wicked . . .] (3) he
will also be robbed. Do not send the man of poor eyesight to look for the Upright, fo[r . . .] (4) Do not
send the poor of hearing to seek judgement, for he will not carefully consider disputes between men.
Like someone winnowing wind . . . [Like a . . .] (5) who doesn't investigate, so is someone who