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Proverbs 1:13

The Scriptures 1998

“Let us find all precious goods, Let us fill our houses with spoil.

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“Let us swallow them alive like the grave, And entirely, like those going down to the pit.

“Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse,”

Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Better to be lowly in spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

‘But they do not know to do what is right,’ declares יהוה, ‘these who store up plunder and loot in their palaces.’ ”

“Cry out at the palaces in Ashdoḏ

The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with torn prey.

‘Let the esteem of this latter House be greater than the former,’ said יהוה of hosts. ‘And in this place I give peace,’ declares יהוה of hosts.”

And He said to them, “Mind, and beware of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.”