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\c 24
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\v 1 Do not want what evil people have;
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\q2 do not desire them for friends,
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\v 2 because they are plotting to do violence;
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\q2 they talk about making trouble.
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\v 3 It takes wisdom to build a house,
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\q2 and by understanding the builder exercises his craft, and a house is made solid on its foundation.
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\v 4 It takes knowledge to fill the rooms of the house
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\q2 with all the beautiful and expensive decorations.
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\v 5 A man who has wisdom has strength,
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\q2 and a person with knowledge is mightier than the one who is strong,
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\v 6 for with wise guidance you can wage a war successfully,
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\q2 and by the advice of many advisors there will be victory.
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\v 7 Wisdom is something that a fool cannot understand;
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\q2 at the gate where the elders gather, the fool has nothing to say.
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\v 8 There is a man who does evil and makes plots—he is called the Master of Schemes.
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\v 9 A foolish plan is not only folly, it is sin;
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\q2 when people tell the truth, they hate those who are conceited and mock everyone.
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\v 10 When trouble comes, and you are terrified like a coward,
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\q2 then your strength is small.
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\v 11 Rescue the ones who are being carried away to the slaughter;
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\q2 they stagger and fall—hold them back from the one who would kill them.
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\v 12 If you say, "I did not know that those people needed any help," then think about this:
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\q2 God knows why we do everything, so he also knows why you said those people needed no help.
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\q2 God sees everything you do in this life, so he certainly understands why you said that about those people.
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\q2 He will certainly pay you back—and everyone else, too—for the harm they have done.
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\v 13 My son, eat honey, because it tastes good;
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\q2 the honeycomb is sweet.
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\v 14 Wisdom is like the honeycomb, it feeds your life, if you can find it.
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\q2 If you can find it, you will have a future,
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\q2 and you will come to the future with hope that will not be cut short.
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\v 15 Do not be like wicked people who hide and wait to attack the home of those who do what is right.
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\q2 Do not commit a violent attack on the place where the good man rests!
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\v 16 Even if good people fall down seven times,
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\q2 they always get back up,
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\q1 but when a disaster comes to the wicked,
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\q2 they are ruined by it.
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\v 17 When your enemy falls, do not rejoice,
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\q2 and do not be happy when he stumbles,
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\v 18 for Yahweh will see how you treat your enemy, and if he disapproves how you treat him,
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\q1 Yahweh may turn his wrath from your enemy and put it on you.
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\v 19 Do not worry about those who do what is evil,
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\q2 and do not be jealous of them,
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\v 20 for there is no future for the wicked;
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\q2 they are like a lamp whose light will soon be put out.
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\v 21 My son, give to Yahweh and give to the king the respect each of them deserves,
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\q2 and do not associate with anyone who rebels against either Yahweh or the king;
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\v 22 because disasters will suddenly come upon those rebels,
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\q2 and no one knows how terrible the disasters will be that will come from both Yahweh and from the king.
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\v 23 Here are more things that wise people have said:
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\q1 It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly.
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\v 24 If they say to people who are guilty, "You are innocent,"
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\q2 they will be cursed by foreign peoples, and hated by nations.
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\v 25 But if judges say that guilty people must be punished,
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\q2 things will go well for those judges, and they will receive gifts of goodness.
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\v 26 Answering honestly—that is the best thing a person can do.
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\v 27 First, do the work that needs to be done outside,
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\q2 and prepare your fields;
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\q2 and after that, build your house.
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\v 28 Do not give testimony against your neighbor if there is no reason for it,
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\q2 and do not deceive people when you are telling what you know.
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\v 29 Do not say, "I will do to him what he did to me;
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\q2 I will pay him back for what he did to me."
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\v 30 I walked by the field of a lazy man,
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\q2 past the vineyard of a man who had no good judgment.
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\v 31 Thorns grew there and the stone wall had fallen down.
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\v 32 When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:
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\v 33 A little sleep, a little nap, a little folding of the hands to rest—and while you rest,
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\v 34 poverty will come to you like a thief who steals from you,
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\q2 and poverty will come like an armed soldier who attacks you.
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