Proverbs 11:26
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26 (A)The people curse him who holds back grain,
but (B)a blessing is on the head of him who (C)sells it.
Job 29:13
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13 (A)The blessing of him who was (B)about to perish came upon me,
and I caused (C)the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Genesis 42:6
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6 Now Joseph was governor (A)over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and (B)bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
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Amos 8:4-6
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4 Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
5 saying, “When will (B)the new moon be over,
that we may sell grain?
And (C)the Sabbath,
that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (D)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
and deal deceitfully with false balances,
6 that we may buy the poor for (E)silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Footnotes
- Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Proverbs 24:24
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24 Whoever (A)says to the wicked, “You are in the right,”
(B)will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,
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