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Proverbs 23:4

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Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

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Verse 4. Prudence. Be more solicitous for this, than to acquire riches. Calmet.—Yet this wisdom must be sober. Romans 12:3. 1 Timothy 6:9. Septuagint “being poor, do not stretch forth thyself to the rich, but prudently retire. verse 2. Bible.

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