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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 The perverse in heart are an abomination to the Lord,
But the (A)blameless in their [a]walk are His (B)delight.

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  1. Proverbs 11:20 Lit way

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 One who has a crooked [a]mind (A)finds nothing good,
And one who is [b](B)corrupted in his language falls into evil.

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  1. Proverbs 17:20 Lit heart
  2. Proverbs 17:20 Lit altered in his tongue

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

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