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My son, if sinners
1entice you, do not consent.
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If they say, "Come with us,
2let us lie in wait for blood;
3let us ambush the innocent without reason;
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like Sheol let us
4swallow them alive, and whole, like
5those who go down to the pit;
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we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;
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throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse"--
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my son,
6do not walk in the way with them;
7hold back your foot from their paths,
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for
8their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
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9For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,
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but these men
10lie in wait for their own blood; they
11set an ambush for their own lives.
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12Such are the ways of everyone who is
13greedy for unjust gain;
14it takes away the life of its possessors.