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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor uselessly. Unless the LORD guards the city, its security forces keep watch uselessly. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor— truly he gives sleep to those he loves. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one's youth. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate. |
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