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

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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
    the poverty of the poor is their destruction.

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Wealth(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(C)

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Riches won’t help on the day of judgment,
    but right living can save you from death.

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

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A person’s riches may ransom their life,
    but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.(A)

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The rich can pay a ransom for their lives,
    but the poor won’t even get threatened.

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

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20 The poor are despised even by their neighbors,
    while the rich have many “friends.”

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24 The wealth of the wise is their crown,
    but the folly of fools yields folly.(A)

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24 Wealth is a crown for the wise;
    the effort of fools yields only foolishness.

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16 Better a little with the fear of the Lord
    than great wealth with turmoil.(A)

17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.(B)

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16 Better to have little, with fear for the Lord,
    than to have great treasure and inner turmoil.

17 A bowl of vegetables with someone you love
    is better than steak with someone you hate.

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Whoever mocks the poor(A) shows contempt for their Maker;(B)
    whoever gloats over disaster(C) will not go unpunished.(D)

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Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who rejoice at the misfortune of others will be punished.

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16 Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
    when they are not able to understand it?(A)

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16 It is senseless to pay to educate a fool,
    since he has no heart for learning.

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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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11 The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense;
    they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.

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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;
    the rich answer with insults.

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