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Habakkuk 2:5
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5 “Moreover, wine [1] is a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. [2]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Footnotes

[1] 2:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
[2] 2:5 The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain

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