⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

¹¹ Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

³ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

³⁶ But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

¹¹ Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

⁹ But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

³¹ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

¹¹ As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

⁸ Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

⁸ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

¹⁴ It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.