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10 For wisdom will enter into your heart.
    Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will watch over you.
    Understanding will keep you,

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10 for wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.[a]
11 Discretion will watch over you;
    understanding will protect you,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:10 Or “inner self”

10 For wisdom will enter your heart,(A)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.(B)

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20 So you may walk in the way of good men,
    and keep the paths of the righteous.

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20 So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,
    and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.

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20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.

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14 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
    Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
    Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
    Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
    that shines more and more until the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is like darkness.
    They don’t know what they stumble over.

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14 In the path of the wicked do not go;
    do not walk in the way of those who do evil.
15 Avoid it; do not transgress it;
    turn away from it and pass by.
16 For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong,
    and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
17 For they ate the bread of wickedness,
    and they drank the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn,
    leading and shining until the day is full.[a]
19 The way of the wicked ones is like deep darkness;
    they do not know what they stumble over.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:18 Literally “is correct”

14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
    or walk in the way of evildoers.(A)
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
    turn from it and go on your way.
16 For they cannot rest until they do evil;(B)
    they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
17 They eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.(C)

18 The path of the righteous(D) is like the morning sun,(E)
    shining ever brighter till the full light of day.(F)
19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;(G)
    they do not know what makes them stumble.(H)

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20 One who walks with wise men grows wise,
    but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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20 Walk with the wise and be wise,
    but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm.

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20 Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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28 A perverse man stirs up strife.
    A whisperer separates close friends.

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28 A person of perversity will spread dissent,
    and he who whispers separates a close friend.

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28 A perverse person stirs up conflict,(A)
    and a gossip separates close friends.(B)

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12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
    rather than a fool in his folly.

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12 May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring
    and not a fool in his folly.

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12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs
    than a fool bent on folly.(A)

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17 A friend loves at all times;
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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17 The friend loves at all times[a],
    but a brother is born for adversity.

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  1. Proverbs 17:17 Hebrew “time”

17 A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for a time of adversity.(A)

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24 A man of many companions may be ruined,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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24 A man of many friends will come to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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24 One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.(A)

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Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor is separated from his friend.

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Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor will be left by his friends.

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Wealth attracts many friends,
    but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.(A)

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