⁶ Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

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

¹¹ Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, But he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

³ In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, But righteousness delivers from death.

³⁶ But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

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.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

¹¹ As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

⁸ Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

⁸ He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

¹⁴ "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasts.