24 (A)One gives (B)freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
23 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk (A)tends only to poverty.
16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, (A)will only come to poverty.
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