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20 For why shouldest thou, my son, [a]be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;
And he [b]maketh level all his paths.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked,
And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:20 Hebrew go astray.
  2. Proverbs 5:21 Or, weigheth carefully