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11 Rescue those who are being led away to death,
    and save those who stumble toward slaughter.
12 If you say, “Look here, we didn’t know about this,”
    doesn’t God,[a] who examines motives,[b] discern it?
Doesn’t the one who guards your soul
    know about it?
Won’t he repay each person
    according to what he has done?

13 My son, eat honey, because it’s good for you;[c]
    indeed, drippings from the honeycomb are sweet to your taste;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:12 Lit. he
  2. Proverbs 24:12 Lit. examines the heart
  3. Proverbs 24:13 The Heb. lacks for you