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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Isaac</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did for Sarah what he had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abraham gave the name Isaac</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:3 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the son Sarah bore him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sarah said, &#8220;God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And she added, &#8220;Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and she said to Abraham, &#8220;Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman&#8217;s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God said to him, &#8220;Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be reckoned. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, &#8220;I cannot watch the boy die.&#8221; And as she sat there, she</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:16 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">the child</span></span></span><span class="content"> began to sob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, &#8220;What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Treaty at Beersheba</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, &#8220;God is with you in everything you do. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Abraham said, &#8220;I swear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek&#8217;s servants had seized. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Abimelek said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and Abimelek asked Abraham, &#8220;What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So that place was called Beersheba,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:31 </span><span class="fq">Beersheba </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">well of seven </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">well of the oath.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because the two men swore an oath there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the Eternal God. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Tested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, &#8220;Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Take your son, your only son, whom you love&#8212;Isaac&#8212;and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to his servants, &#8220;Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, &#8220;Father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son?&#8221; Abraham replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The fire and wood are here,&#8221; Isaac said, &#8220;but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Abraham answered, &#8220;God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.&#8221; And the two of them went on together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called out to him from heaven, &#8220;Abraham! Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not lay a hand on the boy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:13 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">a ram behind him</span></span></span><span class="content"> caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Abraham called that place The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Will Provide. And to this day it is said, &#8220;On the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> it will be provided.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to Abraham from heaven a second time </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;I swear by myself, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have obeyed me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nahor&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Some time later Abraham was told, &#8220;Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Purpose and Theme</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for gaining wisdom and instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">for understanding words of insight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">for receiving instruction in prudent behavior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">doing what is right and just and fair;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for giving prudence to those who are simple,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered </span><span class="fq">simple </span><span class="ft">in Proverbs denotes a person who is gullible, without moral direction and inclined to evil.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">knowledge and discretion to the young&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">let the wise listen and add to their learning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">and let the discerning get guidance&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">for understanding proverbs and parables,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">the sayings and riddles of the wise.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">understanding a proverb, namely, a parable, / and the sayings of the wise, their riddles</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the beginning of knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">but fools</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew words rendered </span><span class="fq">fool </span><span class="ft">in Proverbs, and often elsewhere in the Old Testament, denote a person who is morally deficient.</span></span></span><span class="content"> despise wisdom and instruction.</span></span></div><div class="ms1"><span class="heading">Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom</span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Listen, my son, to your father&#8217;s instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">and do not forsake your mother&#8217;s teaching.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They are a garland to grace your head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">and a chain to adorn your neck.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My son, if sinful men entice you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">do not give in to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If they say, &#8220;Come along with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">let&#8217;s lie in wait for innocent blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">let&#8217;s ambush some harmless soul;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">let&#8217;s swallow them alive, like the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">and whole, like those who go down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">we will get all sorts of valuable things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">and fill our houses with plunder;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">cast lots with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">we will all share the loot&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">my son, do not go along with them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">do not set foot on their paths;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for their feet rush into evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">they are swift to shed blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How useless to spread a net</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">where every bird can see it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">These men lie in wait for their own blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">they ambush only themselves!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">it takes away the life of those who get it.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom&#8217;s Rebuke</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Out in the open wisdom calls aloud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">she raises her voice in the public square;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">on top of the wall</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/ at noisy street corners</span></span></span><span class="content"> she cries out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">at the city gate she makes her speech:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you who are simple love your simple ways?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">How long will mockers delight in mockery</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">and fools hate knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Repent at my rebuke!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">Then I will pour out my thoughts to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">I will make known to you my teachings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But since you refuse to listen when I call</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">since you disregard all my advice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">and do not accept my rebuke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">I will mock when calamity overtakes you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">when calamity overtakes you like a storm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">when distress and trouble overwhelm you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then they will call to me but I will not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">they will look for me but will not find me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">since they hated knowledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">and did not choose to fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Since they would not accept my advice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">and spurned my rebuke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">they will eat the fruit of their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">and the complacency of fools will destroy them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">but whoever listens to me will live in safety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="content">and be at ease, without fear of harm.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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