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If you always praise your friends with sweet words,
    that will be a trap that you walk into yourself.
The sin of an evil person becomes a trap that catches him.
    But a righteous person sings with joy.
Righteous people want poor people to receive justice.
    But wicked people do not understand things like that.

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Those who flatter their neighbors
    are spreading nets for their feet.(A)

Evildoers are snared by their own sin,(B)
    but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.

The righteous care about justice for the poor,(C)
    but the wicked have no such concern.

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