The plans of the diligent certainly lead to profit,
but anyone who is reckless certainly becomes poor.(A)

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As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(A)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

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22 A greedy one[a] is in a hurry for wealth;
he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:22 Lit A man with an evil eye

The Parable of the Lost Son

11 He also said, “A man had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.’ So he distributed the assets[a] to them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered(A) his estate in foolish living.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:12 Or life, or livelihood, also in v. 30

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