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30 Live right, and you will eat
    from the life-giving tree.
And if you act wisely,
    others will follow.[a]
31 (A) If good people are rewarded[b]
    here on this earth,
all who are cruel and mean
    will surely be punished.

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Footnotes

  1. 11.30 act … follow: Hebrew; one ancient translation “but violence leads to death.”
  2. 11.31 rewarded: Or “punished.”

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,(A)
    and the one who is wise saves lives.

31 If the righteous receive their due(B) on earth,
    how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

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