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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a snare[a] of death.(A)

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  1. 21.6 Gk: Heb seekers

A fortune made by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.[a](A)

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  1. Proverbs 21:6 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts vapor for those who seek death

11 Wealth hastily gotten[a] will dwindle,
    but those who gather little by little will increase it.(A)

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  1. 13.11 Gk Vg: Heb from vanity

11 Dishonest money dwindles away,(A)
    but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

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Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

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

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21 An estate quickly acquired in the beginning
    will not be blessed in the end.(A)

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21 An inheritance claimed too soon
    will not be blessed at the end.

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11 Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay,
    so are all who amass wealth unjustly;
in midlife it will leave them,
    and at their end they will prove to be fools.

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11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
    and in the end they will prove to be fools.(A)

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Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
    give me neither poverty nor riches;
    feed me with the food that I need,(A)

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Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
    give me neither poverty nor riches,
    but give me only my daily bread.(A)

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Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity,
    and the rod of anger will fail.(A)

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Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,(A)
    and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.(B)

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36 but those who miss me injure themselves;
    all who hate me love death.”(A)

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36 But those who fail to find me harm themselves;(A)
    all who hate me love death.”(B)

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And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(A)

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In their greed(A) these teachers will exploit you(B) with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

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But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.(A) 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

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Those who want to get rich(A) fall into temptation and a trap(B) and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money(C) is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith(D) and pierced themselves with many griefs.(E)

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14 “Bad, bad,” says the buyer,
    then goes away and boasts.

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14 “It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer—
    then goes off and boasts about the purchase.

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11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.(A)

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11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(A) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

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31 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?(A)

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31 Rid(A) yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart(B) and a new spirit. Why(C) will you die, people of Israel?(D)

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