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To all creatures, human and animal, but to sinners seven times more,
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come death and bloodshed and strife and sword, calamities and famine and ruin and plague.
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All these were created for the wicked, and on their account the flood came.
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All that is of earth returns to earth, and what is from above returns above.
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All bribery and injustice will be blotted out, but good faith will last forever.
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The wealth of the unjust will dry up like a river, and crash like a loud clap of thunder in a storm.
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As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.
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The children of the ungodly put out few branches; they are unhealthy roots on sheer rock.
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The reeds by any water or river bank are plucked up before any grass;
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but kindness is like a garden of blessings, and almsgiving endures forever.
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Wealth and wages make life sweet, but better than either is finding a treasure.