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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 wealth,
with the firstfruits from your entire harvest.
10 Then your barns will be filled to capacity,
and your wine vats will overflow with fresh wine.

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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 A rich person’s wealth is his strong city.
Poverty is the ruin of poor people.

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

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Riches are of no help on the day of fury,
but righteousness saves from death.

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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 Whoever trusts his wealth will fall,
but righteous people will flourish like green plants.

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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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A man’s riches may ransom his life,
but a poor man does not hear a 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,
but those who love a rich person are many.

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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 Their wealth is a crown for the wise,
but the stupidity of fools is just stupidity.

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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 wealth with turmoil.
17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.

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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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Whoever mocks a poor person insults his Maker.
A person who rejoices over calamity will not escape.

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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 hand a fool money to buy wisdom,
since he has no aptitude for using it?

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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 A rich person’s wealth is his strong city.
In his imagination it is like a high wall.

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

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23 A poor man pleads for mercy,
but a rich man answers harshly.

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