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28 Evil people run even though no one is chasing them.
    But good people are as brave as a lion.

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28 The wicked flee(A) though no one pursues,(B)
    but the righteous are as bold as a lion.(C)

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People who disobey what they have been taught praise the wicked.
    But those who obey what they have been taught are against the wicked.

Evil people do not understand fairness.
    But those who follow the Lord understand it completely.

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Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked,
    but those who heed it resist them.

Evildoers do not understand what is right,
    but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

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10 Those who lead honest people to do wrong
    will be ruined by their own evil.
    But the innocent will be rewarded with good things.

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10 Whoever leads the upright along an evil path
    will fall into their own trap,(A)
    but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.

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18 Innocent people will be kept safe.
    But those who are dishonest will suddenly be ruined.

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18 The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe,(A)
    but the one whose ways are perverse will fall(B) into the pit.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:18 Syriac (see Septuagint); Hebrew into one