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Evil people are proud
    and arrogant,
but sin is the only crop
    they produce.[a]
If you plan and work hard,
    you will have plenty;
if you hurry to get rich,
    you will end up poor.

Cheating to get rich
is a foolish dream
    and no less than suicide.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 21.4 but sin … produce: Or “but sin is the only light they ever follow.”
  2. 21.6 and … suicide: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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