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Wealth is useless on a day of wrath,[a](A)
    but justice saves from death.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:4 Cf. note on 10:2. A day of wrath is an unforeseen disaster (even death). Only one’s relationship to God, which makes one righteous, is of any help on such a day.

The justice of the upright saves them,
    but the faithless are caught in their own intrigue.

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