¹⁸ And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

¹⁴ With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

²¹ So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

⁴ And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

⁶ And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

¹⁵ But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.