¹¹ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

³¹ For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

²⁴ "If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'

²⁵ If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth, And boast in the multitude of their riches--

⁷ None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give God a ransom for him.

⁸ For the redemption of their life is costly, No payment is ever enough,

⁹ That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption.

⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶ The righteous also will see it, and fear, And laugh at him, saying,

⁷ "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

¹⁰ Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.

¹¹ God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this, That power belongs to God.

⁴ Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.

¹² For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

¹⁹ I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

²⁰ "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

²¹ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."