"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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MIS Market Invading Self
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FROM THE NOTEBOOKS / 5 EXCERPT OCCURRENCES
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for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;
He won't regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.