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14 Wicked people get out their swords,
    and they prepare to shoot their arrows.
They try to make poor and helpless people fall down.
    They try to destroy people who do what is right.
15 But their swords will go into their own hearts.
    Their bows will break in pieces.

16 It is better to do what is right and only have a few things,
    than to be wicked and have many things.

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14 The wicked draw the sword(A)
    and bend the bow(B)
to bring down the poor and needy,(C)
    to slay those whose ways are upright.
15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts,(D)
    and their bows will be broken.(E)

16 Better the little that the righteous have
    than the wealth(F) of many wicked;

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