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  1. So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
  2. The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
  3. There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty.
  4. Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards a rebuke will be honored.
  5. In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty.
  6. Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
  7. The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.
  8. He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.
  9. For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
  10. So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
  11. He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough!
  12. A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, And does not consider that poverty will come upon him.
  13. Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me;
  14. Let him drink and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.
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