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,
    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.

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  1. Proverbs 24:14 Or “life,” or “inner self”

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 For seven times the righteous will fall, but he will rise,
    but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity.

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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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  1. 24:21 Or those given to change

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?

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  1. Proverbs 24:22 Literally “the two of them”