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15 My son, do not walk in the way with them,
    hold back your foot from their path!

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19 This is the way of everyone greedy for loot:
    it takes away their lives.

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Guarding the paths of justice,
    protecting the way of his faithful ones,
Then you will understand what is right and just,
    what is fair, every good path;

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12 [a]Saving you from the way of the wicked,
    from those whose speech is perverse.
13 From those who have left the straight paths
    to walk in the ways of darkness,

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Footnotes

  1. 2:12–15 As in 1:8–19, there is an obstacle to the quest for wisdom—deceitful and violent men. Cf. also 4:10–19. They offer a way of life that is opposed to the way of wisdom.

15 Whose ways are crooked,
    whose paths are devious;

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18 For her path sinks down to death,
    and her footsteps lead to the shades.[a](A)
19 None who enter there come back,
    or gain the paths of life.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:18 Shades: the inhabitants of Sheol.

15 Their feet are quick to shed blood;(A)

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