27 Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor,[a]
    but evil comes to (A)him who searches for it.

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  1. Proverbs 11:27 Or acceptance

15 He makes (A)a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His (B)mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

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11 An evil man seeks only rebellion,
    and (A)a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

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They set (A)a net for my steps;
    my soul was (B)bowed down.
They (C)dug a pit in my way,
    but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah

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15 The nations have sunk in (A)the pit that they made;
    in (B)the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself (C)known; he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[a] Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term

10 (A)So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. (B)Then the wrath of the king abated.

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In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor;
    let them (A)be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

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