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PROV C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31

LEB by section PROV 1:8

⌂ ← PROV 1:8–1:19 → ║ ═ ©

Lecture Against Gang Behavior

Lecture Against Gang Behavior

8 My child, may you keep[fn] your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teachings,
9 for they are a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.

10 My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
- 11 If they say, “Come with us!
- We shall lie in wait for blood;
- we shall ambush the innocent without cause.[fn]
- 12 Like Sheol,[fn] we will swallow them alive and whole, like those who descend to the pit .[fn]
- 13 We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses with booty,
- 14 you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us.”
- 15 My child, do not walk in their way.[fn] Keep your foot from their paths,
- 16 for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood,
- 17 for “in vain[fn] is the net scattered, in the sight of any winged bird .”[fn]
- 18 They lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives.
- 19 Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain— it will take the life of its possessors.

1:? Or “obey,” or “hear”

1:? Or “wantonly,” or “for nothing”

1:? A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld

1:? Literally “like the descenders of a pit”

1:? Or “on their road”

1:? Or “without cause,” or “for nothing”

1:? Literally “bird of wing”

⌂ ← PROV 1:8–1:19 → ║ ═ ©

PROV C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31