He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,
    but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.(A)

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22 The blessing of the Lord(A) brings wealth,(B)
    without painful toil for it.(C)

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28 Those who trust in their riches will fall,(A)
    but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.(B)

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One person pretends to be rich, yet has nothing;(A)
    another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.(B)

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A person’s riches may ransom their life,
    but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.(A)

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20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.(A)

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24 The wealth of the wise is their crown,
    but the folly of fools yields folly.(A)

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11 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;(A)
    they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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23 The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.

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19 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than a fool whose lips are perverse.(A)

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Wealth attracts many friends,
    but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.(A)

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The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!(A)
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
    better to be poor than a liar.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame

Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.(A)

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The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.(A)

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11 The rich are wise in their own eyes;
    one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.

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13 The poor and the oppressor have this in common:
    The Lord gives sight to the eyes of both.(A)

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