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Comorile câştigate(A) cu o limbă mincinoasă
sunt o deşertăciune care fuge, şi ele duc la moarte.
Silnicia celor răi îi mătură,
pentru că nu vor să facă ce este drept.
Cel vinovat merge pe căi sucite,
dar cel nevinovat face ce este bine.

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(A)Getting treasures by a lying tongue
[a]Is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death.

The violence of the wicked will [b]destroy them,
Because they refuse to do justice.

The way of [c]a guilty man is perverse;
But as for the pure, his work is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:6 LXX Pursue vanity on the snares of death; Vg. Is vain and foolish, and shall stumble on the snares of death; Tg. They shall be destroyed, and they shall fall who seek death
  2. Proverbs 21:7 Lit. drag them away
  3. Proverbs 21:8 Or The way of a man is perverse and strange;