²¹ An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, Won't be blessed in the end.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

²² A stingy man hurries after riches, And doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

⁴ Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

²⁰ A faithful man is rich with blessings; But one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

⁸ He who increases his wealth by excessive interest Gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

² If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

⁴ I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."

⁶ Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare clothing as the clay;

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.