The Bible in Basic English BBE
New International Version NIV
8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
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Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
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They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
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My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.
11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
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If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul;
12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
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let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
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we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
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cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—
15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
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my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
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for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.
17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
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How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!
18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
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These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!
19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
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Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.
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