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Proverbs 24:13-14
Lexham English Bible
Proverbs 24:13-14
Lexham English Bible
13 My child, eat honey, for it is good,
and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
14 Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul,[a]
if you find it, then there is a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 24:14 Or “life,” or “inner self”
Proverbs 24:16
Lexham English Bible
Proverbs 24:16
Lexham English Bible
16 For seven times the righteous will fall, but he will rise,
but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity.
Proverbs 24:20-22
Lexham English Bible
Proverbs 24:20-22
Lexham English Bible
20 For there will not be a future for the evil;
the lamp of the wicked will die out.
21 Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king;
with those who change, do not associate.
22 For suddenly their disaster will come,
and the ruin of both of them,[a] who knows?
Footnotes
- Proverbs 24:22 Literally “the two of them”
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