God has no use for the prayers
    of the people who won’t listen to him.

10 Lead good people down a wrong path
    and you’ll come to a bad end;
    do good and you’ll be rewarded for it.

11 The rich think they know it all,
    but the poor can see right through them.

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If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction,
    even their prayers are detestable.(A)

10 Whoever leads the upright along an evil path
    will fall into their own trap,(B)
    but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.

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

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