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Riches will be of no avail on the day of wrath,[a]
    but righteousness delivers from death.
The virtue of the honest man keeps his way straight,
    whereas the evil man falls as a result of his wickedness.
The righteousness of the upright saves them,
    but the treacherous are trapped by their own schemes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:4 Day of wrath: i.e., the day of judgment (see Isa 10:3; Zep 1:18).