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24 To be a partner of a thief is to hate one’s own life;
    one hears the victim’s curse but discloses nothing.[a](A)

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  1. 29.24 Meaning of Heb uncertain

“When any of you sin in that you have heard a public adjuration to testify and, although able to testify as one who has seen or learned of the matter, do not speak up, you are subject to punishment.(A)

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36 but those who miss me injure themselves;
    all who hate me love death.”(A)

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23 Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
Everyone loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
They do not defend the orphan,
    and the widow’s cause does not come before them.(A)

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11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
    let us wantonly ambush the innocent;(A)
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.(B)
13 We shall find all kinds of costly things;
    we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14 Throw in your lot among us;
    we will all have one purse”—
15 my child, do not walk in their way;
    keep your foot from their paths,(C)
16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood.(D)
17 For in vain is the net baited
    while the bird is looking on;
18 yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves!
    and set an ambush—for their own lives!
19 Such is the end[a] of all who are greedy for gain;
    it takes away the life of its possessors.(E)

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  1. 1.19 Gk: Heb are the ways

18 You make friends with a thief when you see one,
    and you keep company with adulterers.(A)

19 You give your mouth free rein for evil,
    and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your kin;
    you slander your own mother’s child.(B)
21 These things you have done, and I have been silent;
    you thought that I was one just like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.(C)

22 Mark this, then, you who forget God,
    or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.(D)

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17 He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,

‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
    But you have made it a den of robbers.”(A)

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32 Those who ignore instruction despise themselves,
    but those who heed admonition gain understanding.(A)

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32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.(A)

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The dread anger of a king is like the growling of a lion;
    anyone who provokes him to anger forfeits life itself.(A)

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He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and even spoke it in my hearing—that silver is in my possession; I took it, but now I will return it to you.”[a] And his mother said, “May my son be blessed by the Lord!”

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  1. 17.2 The words but now I will return it to you are transposed from the end of 17.3 in Heb