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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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