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16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood,
17 for “in vain[a] is the net scattered,
    in the sight of any winged bird.”[b]
18 They lie in wait for their own blood.
    They ambush their own lives.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:17 Or “without cause,” or “for nothing”
  2. Proverbs 1:17 Literally “bird of wing”