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10 For wisdom will enter into your heart.
    Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
11 Discretion will watch over you.
    Understanding will keep you,

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10 for wisdom will come into your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 (A)discretion will (B)watch over you,
    understanding will guard you,

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20 So you may walk in the way of good men,
    and keep the paths of the righteous.

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20 So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.

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14 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
    Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
    Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
    Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
    that shines more and more until the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is like darkness.
    They don’t know what they stumble over.

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14 (A)Do not enter the path of the wicked,
    and do not walk in the way of the evil.
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
    turn away from it and pass on.
16 For they (B)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
    they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
    (C)and drink the wine of violence.
18 But (D)the path of the righteous is like (E)the light of dawn,
    which shines (F)brighter and brighter until (G)full day.
19 (H)The way of the wicked is like deep (I)darkness;
    they do not know over what they (J)stumble.

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20 One who walks with wise men grows wise,
    but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

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28 A perverse man stirs up strife.
    A whisperer separates close friends.

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28 (A)A dishonest man spreads strife,
    and (B)a whisperer (C)separates close friends.

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12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
    rather than a fool in his folly.

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12 Let a man meet (A)a she-bear robbed of her cubs
    (B)rather than a fool in his folly.

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17 A friend loves at all times;
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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17 (A)A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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24 A man of many companions may be ruined,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,
    but (A)there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor is separated from his friend.

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(A)Wealth brings many new friends,
    (B)but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

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Many will entreat the favor of a ruler,
    and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
All the relatives of the poor shun him:
    how much more do his friends avoid him!
    He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

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Many seek the favor of a generous man,[a]
    and everyone is a friend to a man who gives (A)gifts.
(B)All a poor man's brothers hate him;
    (C)how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:6 Or of a noble
  2. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew sentence is uncertain

19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
    therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

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19 Whoever (A)goes about slandering reveals secrets;
    therefore do not associate with (B)a simple babbler.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:19 Hebrew with one who is simple in his lips

24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
    and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
25 lest you learn his ways,
    and ensnare your soul.

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24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
    nor go with a wrathful man,
25 lest you learn his ways
    and entangle yourself in a snare.

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