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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.

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10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11 If they say, “Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

12 let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down to the pit;

13 we shall find much precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

14 cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse”

15 my son, walk not thou in the way with them; restrain thy 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 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy for gain, which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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29 A violent man entices his neighbor,
    and leads him into the way that is not good.

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29 A violent man enticeth his neighbor and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

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26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked
    is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.

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26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.

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A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
    but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

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A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

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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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10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way shall himself fall into his own pit, but the upright shall possess good things.

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