⁶ The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

²¹ An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

¹¹ Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

³ and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

² Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

¹¹ whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

³¹ Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

¹¹ A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

⁸ Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

¹⁴ `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.