15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

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15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’(A)

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22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

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22 adultery, greed,(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

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22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

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22 All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer[a] stepping into a noose[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
  2. Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.