14 (A)House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
    but a prudent wife is (B)from the Lord.
15 (C)Slothfulness casts into (D)a deep sleep,
    and (E)an idle person will suffer hunger.
16 Whoever (F)keeps the commandment keeps his life;
    he who despises his ways will die.
17 (G)Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord,
    and he (H)will repay him for his (I)deed.

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(A)Better is a poor man who (B)walks in his integrity
    than a rich man who is (C)crooked in his ways.

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19 (A)Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread,
    but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

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22 A (A)stingy man[a] (B)hastens after wealth
    and does not know that (C)poverty will come upon him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:22 Hebrew A man whose eye is evil

Two things I ask of you;
    deny them not to me (A)before I die:
Remove far from me falsehood and lying;
    give me neither poverty nor riches;
    feed me with the food that is (B)needful for me,
lest I be (C)full and (D)deny you
    and say, (E)“Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
    (F)and profane the name of my God.

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