Proverbs 19:7-9

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⁷ If you are poor, your family will turn against you, and your friends will avoid you even more. You might beg them for help, but no one will come to help you.

⁸ Be a friend to yourself; do all you can to be wise. Try hard to understand, and you will be rewarded.

⁹ A witness who lies will be punished. That liar will be destroyed.