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Proverbs 11:26-31
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People curse someone who hoards grain, waiting for a higher price, but they praise the one who puts it up for sale.
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If your goals are good, you will be respected, but if you are looking for trouble, that is what you will get.
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Those who depend on their wealth will fall like the leaves of autumn, but the righteous will prosper like the leaves of summer.
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Those who bring trouble on their families will have nothing at the end. Foolish people will always be servants to the wise.
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Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.
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Those who are good are rewarded here on earth, so you can be sure that wicked and sinful people will be punished.
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[a].
[One ancient translation] Righteousness; [Hebrew] A righteous person.
[b].
[Probable text] violence; [Hebrew] a wise person.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.