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Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing,
    but justice saves from death.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:2 Death: untimely, premature, or sorrowful. The word “death” can have other overtones (see Wis 1:15).

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath,[a](A)
    but justice saves from death.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:4 Cf. note on 10:2. A day of wrath is an unforeseen disaster (even death). Only one’s relationship to God, which makes one righteous, is of any help on such a day.

28 Those who trust in their riches will fall,
    but like green leaves the just will flourish.(A)

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“Behold the man! He did not take God as his refuge,
    but he trusted in the abundance of his wealth,
    and grew powerful through his wickedness.”(A)

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