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24 “If I have made gold my trust
    or called fine gold my confidence,(A)

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24 “If I have put my trust in gold(A)
    or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’(B)

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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

“Here now is the man
    who did not make God his stronghold(A)
but trusted in his great wealth(B)
    and grew strong by destroying others!”

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11 The wealth of the rich is their strong city;
    in their imagination it is like a high wall.(A)

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11 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;(A)
    they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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If the poor are hated even by their kin,
    how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.[a](A)

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  1. 19.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!(A)
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.[a](B)

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  1. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.