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17 Those who love pleasure end up poor;
    lovers of wine and oil won’t get rich.
18 The wicked are a ransom for the righteous;
    the treacherous will be punished[a] in the place of the virtuous.
19 Better to live in a wilderness
    than in a house with a contentious and angry woman.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:18 Heb lacks will be punished.

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