² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing:
    but righteousness delivereth from death.

³ The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish:
    but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

⁹ He that walketh uprightly walketh surely:
    but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

¹⁶ The labour of the righteous tendeth to life:
    the fruit of the wicked to sin.

²⁴ The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him:
    but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

²⁵ As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more:
    but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

²⁷ The fear of the Lord prolongeth days:
    but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous shall be gladness:
    but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

²⁹ The way of the Lord is strength to the upright:
    but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

³⁰ The righteous shall never be removed:
    but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.