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Riches, Pride, Patient Labor, and Hope
Appearance and reality can diverge: people may present themselves as rich or poor while the truth is otherwise. Pride produces conflict, hurried wealth shrinks, patient labor grows, and long-deferred hope can make the heart sick until fulfilled desire becomes a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12 calls fulfilled desire “a tree of life,” deliberately reusing Eden’s life-giving image from Genesis 2. Wisdom literature turns the lost garden symbol into a metaphor for experiences that restore vitality and hope.
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