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There are thorns and snares on the way of the crooked;(A)
the one who guards himself stays far from them.

Start a youth out on his way;(B)
even when he grows old he will not depart from it.

The rich rule over the poor,(C)
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.(D)

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Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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