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When wrongdoers die, their hopes die with them.
    Their great expectations vanish into nothing more than a dream.
Those who do right are pulled from trouble;
    it falls on wrongdoers instead who are left to sink in their own problems.
The words of the godless ruin those close to them,
    but through insight the right-living are spared.

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Hopes placed in mortals die with them;(A)
    all the promise of[a] their power comes to nothing.(B)

The righteous person is rescued from trouble,
    and it falls on the wicked instead.(C)

With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
    but through knowledge the righteous escape.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 11:7 Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from