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12 The Lord preserves the upright but ruins the plans[a] of the wicked.

13 The lazy man is full of excuses. “I can’t go to work!” he says. “If I go outside, I might meet a lion in the street and be killed!”

14 A prostitute is a dangerous trap; those cursed of God are caught in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:12 the plans, literally, “the words.”

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