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For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but ADONAI upholds the righteous.
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ADONAI knows what the wholehearted suffer, but their inheritance lasts forever.
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They will not be distressed when times are hard; when famine comes, they will have plenty.
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For the wicked will perish; ADONAI's enemies will be like sheep fat, ending up as smoke, finished.
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The wicked borrows and doesn't repay, but the righteous is generous and gives.
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For those blessed by [ADONAI] will inherit the land, but those cursed by him will be cut off.
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ADONAI directs a person's steps, and he delights in his way.
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He may stumble, but he won't fall headlong, for ADONAI holds him by the hand.
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I have been young; now I am old; yet not once have I seen the righteous abandoned or his descendants begging for bread.
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All day long he is generous and lends, and his descendants are blessed.
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If you turn from evil and do good, you will live safely forever.