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16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

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27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
    for you do not know what a day may bring.(A)

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Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A)

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“See the one who would not take
    refuge in God
but trusted in abundant riches
    and sought refuge in wealth!”[a](A)

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  1. 52.7 Syr Tg: Heb in his destruction

14 Like clouds and wind without rain
    is one who boasts of a gift never given.(A)

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As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
    so give her a like measure of torment and grief.
Since in her heart she says,
    ‘I rule as a queen;
I am no widow,
    and I will never see grief,’(A)

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14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

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For who sees anything different in you?[a] What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive?(A)

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Quite apart from us you have become kings! If only you had become kings, so that we might be kings with you!

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  1. 4.7 Or Who makes you different from another?

10 You felt secure in your wickedness;
    you said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and your knowledge
    led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
    “I am, and there is no one besides me.”(A)

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Psalm 52

Judgment on the Deceitful

To the leader. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast, O mighty one,
    of mischief done against the godly?[a]
    All day long(A)

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  1. 52.1 Cn Compare Syr: Heb the kindness of God

You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.(A)

Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,
    who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    “I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children”—(B)

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