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The honesty of the upright guides them;
    the faithless are ruined by their duplicity.

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The integrity of the upright guides them,
    but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.(A)

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The justice of the honest makes their way straight,
    but by their wickedness the wicked fall.[a](A)
The justice of the upright saves them,
    but the faithless are caught in their own intrigue.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:5 In Hebrew as in English, “way” means the course of one’s life; similarly, “straight” and “crooked” are metaphors for morally straightforward and for bad, deviant, perverted.

The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,(A)
    but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.(B)

The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
    but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.(C)

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