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15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city.
    The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,(A)
    but poverty is the ruin of the poor.(B)

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20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor,
    but the rich person has many friends.

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20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.(A)

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11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
    like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

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11 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;(A)
    they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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23 The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.

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23 The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.

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The rich and the poor have this in common:
    Yahweh is the maker of them all.

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Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.(A)

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The rich rule over the poor.
    The borrower is servant to the lender.

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The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,
    both come to poverty.

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16 One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
    and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

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Better is the poor who walks in his integrity,
    than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

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Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.(A)

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11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes;
    but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

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

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