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The rich will rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is a slave of the lender.[a]
He who sows injustice will reap calamity,
    and the rod of his anger will fail.
He who is generous[b] will be blessed,
    for he gives to the poor from his own bread.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:7 Literally “the borrower belonging to a man”
  2. Proverbs 22:9 Literally “the generous of eye”