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My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake: and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.
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There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.
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Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty:
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Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.
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Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.
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Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him
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Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil.
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The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever.
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There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward.
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In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone:
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And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die.