Honor the Lord with your wealth
    and with (A)the firstfruits of all your produce;
10 then your (B)barns will be filled with plenty,
    and your vats will be bursting with wine.

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Honor Yahweh from your substance,[a]
    and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,
10 and your barns shall be full of plenty,
    and your vats shall burst with new wine.

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  1. Proverbs 3:9 Or “wealth, property”

15 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

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15 The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

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(A)Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
    (B)but righteousness delivers from death.

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Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath,
    but righteousness will deliver from death.

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28 Whoever (A)trusts in his riches will fall,
    but the righteous will (B)flourish like a green leaf.

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28 He who trusts in his wealth is he who will fall,
    but like a green leaf the righteous will flourish.

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The ransom of a man's life is his wealth,
    but a poor man (A)hears no threat.

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The ransom of the life of a man is his wealth,
    but the poor does not receive a threat.

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20 (A)The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
    (B)but the rich has many friends.

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20 The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
    but the lovers of the rich are many.

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24 The crown of the wise is their wealth,
    but the folly of fools brings folly.

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24 The crown of the wise is their wealth;
    the folly of fools is folly.

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16 (A)Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
    than great treasure and trouble with it.
17 (B)Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
    than (C)a fattened ox and hatred with it.

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16 Better is little with the fear of Yahweh
    than great treasure and trouble with it.[a]
17 Better is a dinner of vegetables when[b] love is there
    than a fattened ox and hatred with it.[c]

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  1. Proverbs 15:16 Or “him”
  2. Proverbs 15:17 Hebrew “and”
  3. Proverbs 15:17 Or “him”

Whoever mocks the poor (A)insults his Maker;
    he who is (B)glad at calamity will not go (C)unpunished.

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He who mocks the poor insults him who made him;
    he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

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16 Why should a fool have money in his hand (A)to buy wisdom
    when he has no sense?

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16 Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool,
    in order to buy wisdom where[a] there is no sense.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 17:16 Hebrew “and”
  2. Proverbs 17:16 Literally “heart”

11 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city,
    and like a high wall in his imagination.

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11 The wealth of the rich is his strong city,[a]
    and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.

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  1. Proverbs 18:11 Literally “a city of his strength”

23 The poor use entreaties,
    but (A)the rich answer roughly.

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23 The poor may speak entreaties,
    but the rich will answer roughly.

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