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Honor the Lord with your wealth
    and with the best part of everything you produce.
10 Then he will fill your barns with grain,
    and your vats will overflow with good wine.

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Honor the Lord with your wealth,
    with the firstfruits(A) of all your crops;
10 then your barns will be filled(B) to overflowing,
    and your vats will brim over with new wine.(C)

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Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

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12 “I, Wisdom, live together with good judgment.
    I know where to discover knowledge and discernment.
13 All who fear the Lord will hate evil.
    Therefore, I hate pride and arrogance,
    corruption and perverse speech.
14 Common sense and success belong to me.
    Insight and strength are mine.
15 Because of me, kings reign,
    and rulers make just decrees.
16 Rulers lead with my help,
    and nobles make righteous judgments.[a]

17 “I love all who love me.
    Those who search will surely find me.
18 I have riches and honor,
    as well as enduring wealth and justice.
19 My gifts are better than gold, even the purest gold,
    my wages better than sterling silver!
20 I walk in righteousness,
    in paths of justice.
21 Those who love me inherit wealth.
    I will fill their treasuries.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek version read and nobles are judges over the earth.

12 “I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence;
    I possess knowledge and discretion.(A)
13 To fear the Lord(B) is to hate evil;(C)
    I hate(D) pride and arrogance,
    evil behavior and perverse speech.
14 Counsel and sound judgment are mine;
    I have insight, I have power.(E)
15 By me kings reign
    and rulers(F) issue decrees that are just;
16 by me princes govern,(G)
    and nobles—all who rule on earth.[a]
17 I love those who love me,(H)
    and those who seek me find me.(I)
18 With me are riches and honor,(J)
    enduring wealth and prosperity.(K)
19 My fruit is better than fine gold;(L)
    what I yield surpasses choice silver.(M)
20 I walk in the way of righteousness,(N)
    along the paths of justice,
21 bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me
    and making their treasuries full.(O)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:16 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; other Hebrew manuscripts all righteous rulers

12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

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Lazy people are soon poor;
    hard workers get rich.

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Lazy hands make for poverty,(A)
    but diligent hands bring wealth.(B)

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He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

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24 Give freely and become more wealthy;
    be stingy and lose everything.

25 The generous will prosper;
    those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.

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24 One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
    another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

25 A generous(A) person will prosper;
    whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.(B)

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24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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28 Trust in your money and down you go!
    But the godly flourish like leaves in spring.

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28 Those who trust in their riches will fall,(A)
    but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.(B)

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28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

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11 A hard worker has plenty of food,
    but a person who chases fantasies has no sense.

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11 Those who work their land will have abundant food,
    but those who chase fantasies have no sense.(A)

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11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

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14 Wise words bring many benefits,
    and hard work brings rewards.

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14 From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things,(A)
    and the work of their hands brings them reward.(B)

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14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.

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27 Lazy people don’t even cook the game they catch,
    but the diligent make use of everything they find.

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27 The lazy do not roast[a] any game,
    but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 12:27 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

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Lazy people want much but get little,
    but those who work hard will prosper.

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A sluggard’s appetite is never filled,(A)
    but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

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The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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