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Evil people are proud
    and arrogant,
but sin is the only crop
    they produce.[a]
If you plan and work hard,
    you will have plenty;
if you hurry to get rich,
    you will end up poor.

Cheating to get rich
is a foolish dream
    and no less than suicide.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 21.4 but sin … produce: Or “but sin is the only light they ever follow.”
  2. 21.6 and … suicide: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

Haughty eyes(A) and a proud heart—
    the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.

The plans of the diligent lead to profit(B)
    as surely as haste leads to poverty.

A fortune made by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death