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¶ Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers 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 ¶ The riches of vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.

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

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17 ¶ Bread of deceit 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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