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  1. therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
  2. The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
  3. and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
  4. Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
  5. The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
  6. One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
  7. Whoever disregards discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever heeds correction is honored.
  8. All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
  9. The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
  10. One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.
  11. and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
  12. Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
  13. The stingy are eager to get rich and are unaware that poverty awaits them.
  14. Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
  15. Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
  16. The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom.
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