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Proverbs 12:27-28
Contemporary English Version

27 Anyone too lazy to cook
    will starve,
but a hard worker
    is a valuable treasure.[a]
28 Living right is a pathway
that leads to life
    and away from death.

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  1. 12.27 but … treasure: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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