15 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
16 The wage of the righteous leads (B)to life,
    the gain of the wicked to sin.
17 Whoever heeds instruction is on (C)the path to life,
    but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

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