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

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Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;(A)
10 then your barns will be completely filled,
and your vats will overflow with new wine.(B)

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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.(A)

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15 The wealth of the rich is his fortified city;(A)
the poverty of the poor is their destruction.

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

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Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath,
but righteousness rescues from death.(A)

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28 Those who trust in their riches will wither,[a]
    but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.28 Cn: Heb fall

28 Anyone trusting in his riches will fall,(A)
but the righteous will flourish like foliage.(B)

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Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life,
    but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.

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Riches are a ransom for a person’s life,(A)
but a poor person hears no threat.

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

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20 A poor person is hated even by his neighbor,(A)
but there are many who love the rich.(B)

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24 The crown of the wise is their wealth,
    but folly is the garland[a] of fools.

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Footnotes

  1. 14.24 Cn: Heb is the folly

24 The crown of the wise is their wealth,
but the foolishness of fools produces foolishness.

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

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

17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened ox(B) with hatred.(C)

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Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.(A)

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The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker,(A)
and one who rejoices over calamity
will not go unpunished.(B)

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16 Why should fools have a price in hand
    to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?

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16 Why does a fool have money in his hand
with no intention of buying wisdom?(A)

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11 The wealth of the rich is their strong city;
    in their imagination it is like a high wall.(A)

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11 The wealth of the rich is his fortified city;
in his imagination it is like a high wall.(A)

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

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23 The poor person pleads,(A)
but the rich one answers roughly.(B)

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