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11 and your poverty will come on you like a bandit
    and your desperation like an armed man.

The Folly of Causing Strife

12 A worthless man, a wicked man,
    goes around with devious speech,
13 winking with his eyes, making signs[a] with[b] his feet,
    pointing with his fingers,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:13 Lit. scraping
  2. Proverbs 6:13 The Heb. lacks with

11 and poverty(A) will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.

12 A troublemaker and a villain,
    who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13     who winks maliciously with his eye,(B)
    signals with his feet
    and motions with his fingers,(C)

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