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20 The perverse in heart come to no good,
    and the double-tongued fall into trouble.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 17:20 The saying employs the familiar metaphors of walking = conducting oneself (“fall into trouble”), and of straight and crooked = right and wrong (“perverse,” “double-tongued”).

10 Do not criticize servants to their master,
    lest they curse you, and you have to pay the penalty.

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