13 Eat honey,(A) my son, for it is good,
and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;(B)
14 realize that wisdom is the same for you.(C)
If you find it, you will have a future,
and your hope will never fade.(D)

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16 Though a righteous man falls seven times,
he will get up,(A)
but the wicked will stumble into ruin.(B)

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20 For the evil have no future;(A)
the lamp of the wicked will be put out.(B)

21 My son, fear the Lord, as well as the king,(C)
and don’t associate with rebels,[a]
22 for destruction from them will come suddenly;
who knows what distress these two can bring?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:21 Or those given to change

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