Proverbs 10:16

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14 Wise people store up knowledge,
But ^athe mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

15 The ^arich man’s wealth is his strong city;
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

16 The labor of the righteous leads to ^alife,
The wages of the wicked to sin.

17 He who keeps instruction is in the way of life,
But he who refuses correction¹ goes astray.

18 Whoever ^ahides hatred has lying lips,
And ^bwhoever spreads slander is a fool.

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Barnes' Notes

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Proverbs 10:16

A warning against the conclusion to seek wealth first of all, which men of lower natures might draw from Proverbs 10:15.

" Quaerenda pecunia primum est;

Virtus post nummos ?"

Horace, Ep. 1. i. 53.

Such an inference is met by the experience, that while wealth gotten by honest industry is not only, like inherited riches a defense, but also a blessing, the seeming profit (rather than "fruit" ) of the wicked tends to further sin I Timothy 6:10, and so to punishment. Compare Romans 6:21.

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