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Deuteronomy warns against saying, “My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth” Deuteronomy 8:17. It redirects the credit to the LORD, who gives power to get wealth to confirm his covenant Deuteronomy 8:18. The warning is placed in a context about prosperity leading to forgetting the LORD Deuteronomy 8:11–14.
17and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
18But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.