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13 Do not love sleep if you wish to avoid poverty;
    remain awake and you will never lack food.
14 “No good, no good,” says the buyer,
    but then he goes forth to boast about his bargain.[a]
15 There is gold or an abundance of costly pearls,
    but the lips that reveal knowledge are a rare jewel.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:14 In Old Testament times, people arrived at the price of things through bargaining. The buyers would devalue things in order to buy them at bargain prices and then boast about their purchase.