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A person who flatters his neighbor
    is spreading a net for him to step into.
To an evil person sin is bait in a trap,
    but a righteous person runs away from it[a] and is glad.
A righteous person knows the just cause of the poor.
    A wicked person does not understand this.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:6 Hebrew meaning of “runs away from it” uncertain.

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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