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20 Crooked minds are an abomination to the Lord,
    but those of blameless ways are his delight.(A)

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20 An abomination of Yahweh are the crooked of heart,[a]
    but his delight are those with blameless ways.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:20 Literally “crooked ones of heart”; “heart” may also be translated “mind”
  2. Proverbs 11:20 Literally “blameless ones of ways”

20 The Lord detests those whose hearts are perverse,(A)
    but he delights(B) in those whose ways are blameless.(C)

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20 The crooked of mind do not prosper,
    and the perverse of tongue fall into calamity.(A)

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20 He who is crooked of heart[a] will not find goodness,
    and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:20 Or “mind”

20 One whose heart is corrupt does not prosper;
    one whose tongue is perverse falls into trouble.

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