22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children,
    but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.(A)

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26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(A) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(B) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(C) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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16 Though he heaps up silver like dust(A)
    and clothes like piles of clay,(B)
17 what he lays up(C) the righteous will wear,(D)
    and the innocent will divide his silver.(E)

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Whoever increases wealth by taking interest(A) or profit from the poor
    amasses it for another,(B) who will be kind to the poor.(C)

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25 I was young and now I am old,
    yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken(A)
    or their children begging(B) bread.

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Their children(A) will be mighty in the land;
    the generation of the upright will be blessed.

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I will establish my covenant(A) as an everlasting covenant(B) between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God(C) and the God of your descendants after you.(D) The whole land of Canaan,(E) where you now reside as a foreigner,(F) I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you;(G) and I will be their God.(H)

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12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?(A)
    He will instruct them in the ways(B) they should choose.[a]
13 They will spend their days in prosperity,(C)
    and their descendants will inherit the land.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 25:12 Or ways he chooses

12 Therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them(A) at any time, that you may be strong(B) and eat the good things(C) of the land and leave it to your children as an everlasting inheritance.’(D)

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May you live to see your children’s children—(A)
    peace be on Israel.(B)

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28 The children of your servants(A) will live in your presence;
    their descendants(B) will be established before you.”

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