Avoid the Path of the Violent

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching,(A)

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Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men

Listen, my son,(A) to your father’s(B) instruction
    and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.(C)

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The Words of Lemuel

31 The words of King Lemuel,
a pronouncement[a](A) that his mother taught him:

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Footnotes

  1. 31:1 Or of Lemuel, king of Massa, or of King Lemuel, a burden

Sayings of King Lemuel

31 The sayings(A) of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.

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