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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”

13 My son, eat thou honey, for it is good;
And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:
14 So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul;
If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward,
And thy hope shall not be cut off.

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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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16 For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again;
But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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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”

20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man;
The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
21 My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king;
And company not with them that are given to change:
22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly;
And the destruction [a]from them both, who knoweth it?

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  1. Proverbs 24:22 Or, of their years