¹² Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

⁷ See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

¹ Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

² Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

³ Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

¹⁹ Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.

⁷ So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.

⁸ As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

¹ You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

² They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

²⁸ They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

¹⁷ They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

¹⁰ Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

⁶ Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

³⁵ I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

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.