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24 Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb,
    sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.
25 There is a way that seems upright to[a] a man,
    but its end is the way of death.
26 The life[b] of a worker works for him,
    for his hunger[c] urges him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:25 Literally “to the face of”
  2. Proverbs 16:26 Or “soul,” or “inner self”
  3. Proverbs 16:26 Literally “mouth”