11 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city,
    and like a high wall in his imagination.

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15 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

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12 For the protection of wisdom is like (A)the protection of money,
    and the advantage of knowledge is that (B)wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, (C)‘Fool! (D)This night (E)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (F)whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one (G)who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

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But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah
The righteous shall (C)see and fear,
    and shall (D)laugh at him, saying,
“See the man who would not make
    God his refuge,
but (E)trusted in the abundance of his riches
    and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction

those who (A)trust in their wealth
    and boast of the abundance of their riches?
Truly no man (B)can ransom another,
    or (C)give to God (D)the price of his life,
for (E)the ransom of their life is costly
    and can never suffice,
that he should live on forever
    and (F)never see the pit.

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24 (A)“If I have made gold my (B)trust
    or called (C)fine gold my confidence,
25 if I have (D)rejoiced because my wealth was abundant
    or because (E)my hand had found much,

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31 For (A)their rock is not as our Rock;
    (B)our enemies are by themselves.

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(A)Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
    (B)but righteousness delivers from death.

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10 Put no trust in extortion;
    (A)set no vain hopes on robbery;
    (B)if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

11 (C)Once God has spoken;
    (D)twice have I heard this:
that (E)power belongs to God,

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