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

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

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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 riches will wither,[a]
    but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.28 Cn: Heb fall

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

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

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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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  1. 14.24 Cn: Heb is the folly

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 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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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 are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.(A)

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

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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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