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Proverbs 20:20-25 New English Translation (NET)

20. The one who curses his father and his mother,his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.

21. An inheritance gained easily in the beginningwill not be blessed in the end.

22. Do not say, “I will pay back evil!”Wait for the Lord, so that he may vindicate you.

23. The Lord abhors differing weights,and dishonest scales are wicked.

24. The steps of a person are ordained by the Lord – so how can anyone understand his own way?

25. It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, “Holy!”and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.

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