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What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.
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Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
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Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.
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Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.
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Rich and poor have this in common: The Lord is the Maker of them all.
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The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.
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One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.
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Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court,
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for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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A ruler who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.
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Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse.
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Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
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The rich are wise in their own eyes; one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.
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Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
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The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.
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The poor and the oppressor have this in common: The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both.
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If a king judges the poor with fairness, his throne will be established forever.
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Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
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those whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among mankind.
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Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
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She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.
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Advancement Is Meaningless
Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
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Riches Are Meaningless
If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
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What advantage have the wise over fools? What do the poor gain by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
