A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

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Good people obtain favor from the Lord,(A)
    but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.(B)

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35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

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35 For those who find me(A) find life(B)
    and receive favor from the Lord.(C)

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24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

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24 He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit(A) and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.(B)

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A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

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Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,(A)
    who conduct their affairs with justice.

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For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

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Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

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The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

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No longer will the fool(A) be called noble
    nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
For fools speak folly,(B)
    their hearts are bent on evil:(C)
They practice ungodliness(D)
    and spread error(E) concerning the Lord;
the hungry they leave empty(F)
    and from the thirsty they withhold water.
Scoundrels use wicked methods,(G)
    they make up evil schemes(H)
to destroy the poor with lies,
    even when the plea of the needy(I) is just.(J)

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31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(A)

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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

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As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
    so[a] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
    so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 8:8 Or over the human spirit to retain it, / and so

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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18         a heart that devises wicked schemes,
        feet that are quick to rush into evil,(A)

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15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

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15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;(A)
    their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.(B)

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