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The clever see danger and hide,
    but the simple go on and suffer for it.

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12 The clever see danger and hide,
    but the simple go on and suffer for it.(A)

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16 The wise are cautious and turn away from evil,
    but the fool throws off restraint and is careless.(A)

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29 One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn,
    will suddenly be broken beyond healing.(A)

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For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.(A) When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(B) But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief;(C) for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(D)

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By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.(A)

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20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
    until the wrath is past.(A)
21 For the Lord comes out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it
    and will no longer cover its slain.(B)

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and I saw among the simple ones,
    I observed among the youths,
    a young man without sense,(A)

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22 Right away he follows her
    and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]
23     until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
    not knowing that it will cost him his life.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried their slaves and livestock off to a secure place,(A) 21 but those who did not regard the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the open field.

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18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.(A)

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16 “You who are simple, turn in here!”
    And to those without sense she says,
17 “Stolen water is sweet,
    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”(A)
18 But they do not know that the dead[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.18 Heb shades

The Desolating Sacrilege

15 “So when you see the desolating sacrilege, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),(A) 16 then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; 17 the one on the housetop must not go down to take things from the house; 18 the one in the field must not turn back to get a coat.

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