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26 A righteous person gives good advice to his friends.
    But wicked people are always taking the wrong path.
27 A lazy person does not cook the animals that he has caught.
    But if you work hard, you will enjoy many valuable things.
28 If you do what is right, you will find true life.
    Along that path, there is no death.

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26 The righteous choose their friends carefully,
    but the way of the wicked leads them astray.(A)

27 The lazy do not roast[a] any game,
    but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

28 In the way of righteousness there is life;(B)
    along that path is immortality.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:27 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.