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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a fleeting vapour and a snare[a] of death.
The violence of the wicked will sweep them away,
    because they refuse to do what is just.
The way of the guilty is crooked,
    but the conduct of the pure is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:6 Gk: Heb seekers

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