Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness—an exhortation against obsessive pursuit of wealth or reliance on one's own cunning, establishing that such pursuits exhaust without delivering. The phrase 'wear yourself out' (al-yigah) describes exhaustion; the pursuit of wealth consumes. The theological significance involves the principle that security comes from God, not from frantic accumulation.

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