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21-22 My son, watch your step before the Lord and the king, and don’t associate with radicals. For you will go down with them to sudden disaster, and who knows where it all will end?

23 It is wrong to sentence the poor and let the rich go free. 24 He who says to the wicked, “You are innocent,” shall be cursed by many people of many nations;

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22 for those two will send sudden destruction(A) on them,
    and who knows what calamities they can bring?

Further Sayings of the Wise

23 These also are sayings of the wise:(B)

To show partiality(C) in judging is not good:(D)
24 Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent,”(E)
    will be cursed by peoples and denounced by nations.

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