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8 What advantage have the wise over fools?
What do the poor gain
by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
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8 For what advantage does the wise person have over the fool? What does the poor person have, knowing how to walk before the living?
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8 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool [for being worldly-wise is not the secret to happiness]? What advantage has the poor man who has learned how to walk [publicly] among the living [with men’s eyes on him; for being poor is not the secret to happiness either]?
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8 What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
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8 For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?
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8 For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?
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8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
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8 What advantage do wise people have
over those who are foolish?
What do poor people gain
by knowing how to act toward others?
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8 Does a wise person have a better life than a foolish person?
No, he does not!
Does it help a poor person if he knows how to live well?
No!
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8 For what advantage [is] to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knows to walk before the living?
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