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Proverbs 1:10-20 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

19. So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

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