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Proverbs 1:18

New American Bible - revised edition

They lie in wait for their own blood, they set a trap for their own lives.

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Cast your care upon the Lord, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.

The nations fall into the pit they dig; in the snare they hide, their own foot is caught.

do not go if they say, “Come along with us! Let us lie in wait for blood, unprovoked, let us trap the innocent;

In vain a net is spread right under the eyes of any bird—

Justice leads toward life, but pursuit of evil, toward death.

The justice of the honest makes their way straight, but by their wickedness the wicked fall.

Though a person burdened with blood guilt is in flight even to the grave, let no one offer support.

By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,