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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother;
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8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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9 for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
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10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
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11 If they say, "Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
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11 If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
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12 let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down to the pit;
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12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
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13 we shall find much precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
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13 we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
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14 cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse""
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14 throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"--
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15 my son, walk not thou in the way with them; restrain thy foot from their path;
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15 my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
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16 for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
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16 for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
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17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird!
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17 How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
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18 And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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18 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
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19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy for gain, which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
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| Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved. (Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha) |
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