Proverbs 21:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
    but everyone who is hasty comes only to want.
⁶The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapour and a snare^[a] of death.
⁷The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,
    because they refuse to do what is just.

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Proverbs 21:6 Gk: Heb seekers

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