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16 The labor of the just leads to life,
    the gains of the wicked, to futility.[a](A)

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  1. 10:16 Wages are a metaphor for reward and punishment. The Hebrew word does not mean “sin” here but falling short, a meaning that is frequent in Proverbs. Cf. Rom 6:1: “But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.”

16 The wages of the righteous is life,(A)
    but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.(B)

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