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you scrutinize my daily activities. You are so familiar with all my ways

Adonai , don't grant the wicked their wishes; make their plot fail, so they won't grow proud. (Selah)

Listen to my cry, for I have been brought very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me. Lead me out of prison, so that I can give thanks to your name; in me the righteous will be crowning themselves, because you will have treated me generously.

So are the ways of all greedy for gain — it takes the lives of those who get it.

So they will bear the consequences of their own way and be overfilled with their own schemes.

for I am giving you good advice; so don't abandon my teaching.

so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.

So now, children, listen to me; don't turn away from what I am saying:

so that you won't give your vigor to others and your years to someone who is cruel,

so strangers won't be filled with your strength and what you worked for go to a foreign house.

So is he who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will be punished.

so that they can keep you from unknown women, from loose women with their seductive talk.

So now, children, listen to me; pay attention to what I am saying.

when he prescribed boundaries for the sea, so that its water would not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

When words are many, sin is not lacking; so he who controls his speech is wise.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.

Sh'ol and Abaddon lie open to Adonai ; so how much more people's hearts!

The discipline of wisdom is fear of Adonai , so before being honored, a person must be humble.

Divine inspiration is on the lips of the king, so his mouth must be faithful when he judges.

He who fathers a fool does so to his sorrow, and the father of a boor has no joy.