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If you plan and work hard,
    you will have plenty;
if you hurry to get rich,
    you will end up poor.

Cheating to get rich
is a foolish dream
    and no less than suicide.[a]
You destroy yourself
by being cruel and violent
    and refusing to live right.

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  1. 21.6 and … suicide: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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