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Proverbs 6:11-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

11. and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

12. An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

13. he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger.

14. With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict.

15. To this one, his perdition will arrive promptly, and he shall be crushed suddenly: he will no longer have any remedy.

16. Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests:

17. haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

18. a heart that devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil,

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