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15 My child, do not walk in their way.[a]
    Keep your foot from their paths,
16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood,
17 for “in vain[b] is the net scattered,
    in the sight of any winged bird.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 1:15 Or “on their road”
  2. Proverbs 1:17 Or “without cause,” or “for nothing”
  3. Proverbs 1:17 Literally “bird of wing”

15 my son, do not go along with them,
    do not set foot(A) on their paths;(B)
16 for their feet rush into evil,(C)
    they are swift to shed blood.(D)
17 How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!

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