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 ruin.(A)

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

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

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

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

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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 and the poor have this in common:
    the Lord is the maker of them all.

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

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The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.(A)

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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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16 Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself,
    and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.

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

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Better to be poor and walk in integrity
    than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.(A)

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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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11 The rich is wise in self-esteem,
    but an intelligent poor person sees through the pose.(A)

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