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22 The good leave an inheritance to their children’s children,
    but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the just.

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16 Though he heap up silver like dust
    and store away mounds of clothing,

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17 What he has stored the righteous shall wear,
    and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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26 [a](A)For to the one who pleases God, he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the one who displeases, God gives the task of gathering possessions for the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:26 According to 7:15 and 9:1–3, God does not make an objective, evidential, moral distinction between saint and sinner. God “gives” as God pleases.