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17 May your heart[a] not envy the sinners,
    but live in fear of Yahweh all day.[b]
18 Surely[c] there is a future,
    and your hope will not be cut off.
19 You, my child, hear and be wise,
    and direct your heart[d] on the road.
20 Do not be among drinkers of wine,
    among gluttonous eaters of their meat.[e]
21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,
    and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:17 Or “mind”
  2. Proverbs 23:17 Literally “all the day”
  3. Proverbs 23:18 Literally “For if”
  4. Proverbs 23:19 Or “mind”
  5. Proverbs 23:20 Literally “meat for them”

24 Do not envy men of evil,
    and do not desire to be with them.
For their minds will devise violence,
    and their lips will speak mischief.

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