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Like a fluttering sparrow,
    like a darting swallow,
    so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.

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Like a fluttering sparrow
    or a swallow in flight,
        a curse without cause will not alight.

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17 Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
    is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

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17 Picking up a dog by the ears—
    that’s what someone is like who[a] meddles in another’s fight.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 26:17 Lit. who, as he is passing by,