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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You may say to yourself, &#8220;My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But remember the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.62.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not trust in extortion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.62.10"><span class="content">or put vain hope in stolen goods;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.62.10"><span class="content">though your riches increase,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.62.10"><span class="content">do not set your heart on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.62.10"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Be careful that you do not forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then your heart will become proud and you will forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Let not the wise boast of their wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the strong boast of their strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the rich boast of their riches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but let the one who boasts boast about this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that they have the understanding to know me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who exercises kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">justice and righteousness on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">for in these I delight,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have made my days a mere handbreadth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">the span of my years is as nothing before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">Everyone is but a breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">even those who seem secure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">39:5 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">without knowing whose it will finally be.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="content">than to share plunder with the proud.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The pride of your heart has deceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who live in the clefts of the rocks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Sela</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">and make your home on the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Who can bring me down to the ground?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though you soar like the eagle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">and make your nest among the stars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">from there I will bring you down,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If thieves came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">if robbers in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">oh, what a disaster awaits you!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not steal only as much as they wanted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">If grape pickers came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not leave a few grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But how Esau will be ransacked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">his hidden treasures pillaged!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All your allies will force you to the border;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">your friends will deceive and overpower you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">but you will not detect it.</span></span></div>
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