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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing;
But righteousness delivereth from death.

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Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,(A)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(B)

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11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished;
But he that gathereth [a]by labor shall have increase.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 13:11 Hebrew with the hand.

11 Dishonest money dwindles away,(A)
    but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

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17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;
But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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17 Food gained by fraud tastes sweet,(A)
    but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.(B)

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21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
But the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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21 An inheritance claimed too soon
    will not be blessed at the end.

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