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# Thorns and snares lie in the path of the perverse
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The writer speaks of the way perverse people live as if it were a path on which the perverse will have trouble because of the natural "thorns" and man-made "snares." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# snares
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traps to catch animals
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# the perverse
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This nominal adjective can be translated as a noun phrase. Alternate translation: "perverse people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-nominaladj]])
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# whoever guards his life
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A person doing what he needs to do so he can live a long time is spoken of as if that person were keeping thieves away from a physical object. Alternate translation: "people who want to live a long time" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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