Proverbs 1:10-19
Modern English Version
10 My son, if sinners entice you,
do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us,
let us lie in wait for blood;
let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12 let us swallow them up alive as the grave,
and whole, as those who go down into the pit;
13 we will find all kinds of precious possessions;
we will fill our houses with spoil;
14 cast in your lot among us,
let us all have one purse”—
15 my son, do not walk in the way with them,
keep your foot from their path;
16 for their feet run to evil
and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread
in the sight of any bird.
18 They lie in wait for their own blood;
they lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain,
which takes away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 16:29
Modern English Version
29 A violent man entices his neighbor,
and leads him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 25:26
Modern English Version
26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked
is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs 27:3
Modern English Version
3 A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
Proverbs 28:10
Modern English Version
10 Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way,
he himself will fall into his own pit;
but the upright will have good things in possession.
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