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 first of all your crops.
10 Then your barns will be filled with plenty,
    and your vats will burst with 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 riches of the wealthy are their strong city;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

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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 don’t help in the day of wrath,
    but righteousness rescues 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 Those who trust in their wealth will wither,
    but the righteous will thrive like leafy trees.

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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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Wealth can ransom a person’s life,
    but the poor don’t even receive threats.

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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 Even their neighbors hate the poor,
    but many love the wealthy.

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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 the crown of the wise,
    and the folly of fools is folly.

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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 a little with fear of the Lord
    than a great treasure with turmoil.
17 Better a meal of greens with love
    than a plump calf with 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 in disaster won’t go unpunished.

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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 Why should a fool have money
    to pay for wisdom? He has no mind.

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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 riches of the wealthy are a strong city
    and like a high wall in their imagination.

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

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23 The poor plead for help,
    but the wealthy answer harshly.

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