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Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing,
    but justice saves from death.[a](A)

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  1. 10:2 Death: untimely, premature, or sorrowful. The word “death” can have other overtones (see Wis 1:15).

The Lord does not let the just go hungry,
    but the craving of the wicked he thwarts.[a]

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  1. 10:3 The last of the three introductory sayings in the collection, which emphasize, respectively, the sapiential (v. 1), ethical (v. 2), and religious (v. 3) dimensions of wisdom. In this saying, God will not allow the appetite of the righteous to go unfulfilled. The appetite of hunger is singled out; it stands for all the appetites.

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath,[a](A)
    but justice saves from death.

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  1. 11:4 Cf. note on 10:2. A day of wrath is an unforeseen disaster (even death). Only one’s relationship to God, which makes one righteous, is of any help on such a day.