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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 lay 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 into 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 all 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; refrain 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 lay 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 of 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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20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
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21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse , in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
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21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
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22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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22 "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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23 If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
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24 Because I have called , and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ;
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24 But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
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25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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25 since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
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26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh ;
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26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
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27 When your fear cometh as desolation , and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
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28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer ; they shall seek me early , but they shall not find me:
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28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
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29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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29 Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
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30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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30 since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
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31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
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32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
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33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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