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Proverbs 1:8-9

Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against Enticement

8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction
and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

9They will be a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck.

10My son, if sinners entice you,
do not give in to them.

11If they say, “Come along with us;
let's lie in wait for someone's blood,
let's waylay some harmless soul;

12let's swallow them alive, like the grave,Hebrew Sheol
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

13we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder;

14throw in your lot with us,
and we will share a common purse”—

15my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their paths;

16for their feet rush into sin,
they are swift to shed blood.

17How useless to spread a net
in full view of all the birds!

18These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they waylay only themselves!

19Such 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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