²¹ A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.

²² The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

²² He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

⁴ Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

²⁰ A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

⁸ He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

⁹ But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

² If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

⁴ And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

⁶ Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

¹⁶ Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

¹⁷ He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.