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Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity,
    but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

Wealth created by a lying tongue
    is a vanishing mist and a deadly trap.[a]

The violence of the wicked sweeps them away,
    because they refuse to do what is just.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:6 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads mist for those who seek death.

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