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16     Though he pile up money as if it were common dirt
        and clothing in heaps like mounds of clay,
17     What he may prepare, the righteous will wear;
        the silver he sets aside, the innocent will divide.
18     He builds his house doomed to impermanence—
        like the moth’s cocoon,
        like the field watchman’s lean-to that is dismantled after the harvest.

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