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

³ The Lord will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish,
    but He casts away the desire of the wicked.

⁹ He who walks uprightly walks surely,
    but he who perverts his ways will be known.

¹⁶ The labor of the righteous tends to life,
    the fruit of the wicked to sin.

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

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

²⁷ The fear of the Lord prolongs days,
    but the years of the wicked will be shortened.

²⁸ The hope of the righteous will be gladness,
    but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

²⁹ The way of the Lord is strength to the upright,
    but destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.

³⁰ The righteous will never be removed,
    but the wicked will not inhabit the earth.