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18 A person who lacks sense[a] pledges;[b]
    he becomes security before his neighbor.
19 He who loves transgression loves strife;
    he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.
20 He who is crooked of heart[c] will not find goodness,
    and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 17:18 Literally “heart”
  2. Proverbs 17:18 Literally “pledges a hand”
  3. Proverbs 17:20 Or “mind”