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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13 My child, eat honey, for it is good.
    The honeycomb is sweet in your mouth.
14 Know that wisdom is like that for your whole being.
    If you find it, there is a future.
    Your hope won’t be cut off.

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

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16 The righteous may fall seven times but still get up,
    but the wicked will stumble into trouble.

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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 will come suddenly from them;
who knows what distress these two can bring?

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Footnotes

  1. 24:21 Or those given to change

20 Indeed, there is no future for the evil;
    the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

21 Fear the Lord, my child, as well as the king.
    Don’t associate with those who are rebellious.
22 Disaster comes suddenly from them.
    Who can know the ruin that both can bring?

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