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My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;
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For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
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To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things,
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From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;
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To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,
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But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
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Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
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My son, let them not depart from your eyes— Keep sound wisdom and discretion;
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Do not be afraid of sudden terror, Nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes;
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For the Lord will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being caught.
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Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in the power of your hand to do so.
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Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
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Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
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Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;
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Put away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse lips far from you.
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Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.
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Therefore hear me now, my children, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,
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Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well.
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Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?
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To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
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That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words.
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Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, And from the opening of my lips will come right things;
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I have been established from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth.
