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18 But watch out, or you may be seduced by wealth.[a]
    Don’t let yourself be bribed into sin.
19 Could all your wealth[b]
    or all your mighty efforts
    keep you from distress?
20 Do not long for the cover of night,
    for that is when people will be destroyed.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 36:18 Or But don’t let your anger lead you to mockery.
  2. 36:19 Or Could all your cries for help.
  3. 36:16-20 The meaning of the Hebrew in this passage is uncertain.

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