⁴ Wealth^(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,^(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.^(C)

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold
    will be able to save them
    on the day of the Lord’s wrath.”^(A)

In the fire of his jealousy^(B)
    the whole earth will be consumed,^(C)
for he will make a sudden end
    of all who live on the earth.^(D)

² Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,^(A)
    but righteousness delivers from death.^(B)

¹⁹ “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,^(A)
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.^(B)
It will not satisfy^(C) their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble^(D) into sin.^(E)

²⁸ In the way of righteousness there is life;^(A)
    along that path is immortality.