Prov 30

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-\v 11 A generation that curses their father
-\q and does not bless their mother,
+\v 11 There is a generation that curses their father
+\q and does not bless their mother.
 \q
-\v 12 that is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
-\q but they are not washed of their filth.
+\v 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
+\q and yet they are not washed of their filth.
 
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-\v 13 That is a generation—how haughty are their eyes
-\q and their eyelids are lifted up!—
+\v 13 There is a generation who eyes are so haughty,
+\q  and their eyelids, how high they are lifted up!
 \q
-\v 14 they are a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jawbones are knives,
-\q so they may devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
+\v 14 There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
+\q and their jawbones are like knives,
+\q so they may devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among humanity.
 
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-\v 15 The leech has two daughters, "Give and give," they cry.
+\v 15 The leech has two daughters: "Give and give" they cry.
 \q There are three things that are never satisfied,
 \q four that never say, "Enough":
 \q
-\v 16 Sheol, the barren womb,
-\q land thirsty for water,
-\q and the fire that never says, "Enough."
+\v 16 Sheol; the barren womb;
+\q land that is never satisfied with water;
+\q and the fire that never says, "Enough!"
 \q
 \v 17 The eye that mocks a father
 \q and scorns obedience to a mother,
@@ -87,14 +88,14 @@
 
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-\v 20 This is the way of an adulteress—
+\v 20 This is the way of an adulteress:
 \q she eats and she wipes her mouth
 \q and says, "I have done nothing wrong."
 
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-\v 21 Under three things the earth trembles
-\q and the fourth it cannot endure:
+\v 21 Under three things the earth trembles,
+\q and under four it cannot bear up:
 \q
 \v 22 a slave when he becomes king;
 \q a fool when he is filled with food;