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Things to be praised

25 My whole being takes pleasure
in three things,
        and these are beautiful to the Lord
        and to human beings:
    harmony among brothers and sisters,
    friendship among neighbors,
    and a wife and husband
    who adapt to each other.
My whole being despises
three types of persons,
        and I am angered by the way they live:
    an arrogant poor person,
    a rich liar,
    an old adulterer who never learns.

If you have gathered nothing
in your youth,
    how then will you find anything
    in your old age?

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