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Riches will not help ·when it’s time to die [L on the day of anger],
but ·right living [righteousness] will save you from death.

The ·goodness [righteousness] of the innocent makes ·life easier [L their path straight],
but the wicked will ·be destroyed [L fall] by their wickedness.

·Doing right [Righteousness] brings freedom to ·honest people [people with integrity],
but those who are not trustworthy will be caught by their own desires.

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Wealth(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(C)

The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,(D)
    but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.(E)

The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
    but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.(F)

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