Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

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Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,(A)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(B)

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(A)Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
(B)But righteousness delivers from death.

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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

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Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,(A)
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.(B)

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[a]Will you set your eyes on that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings;
They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:5 Lit. Will you cause your eyes to fly upon it and it is not?