⁴ Riches increase one’s friends,
    but the poor lose their friends.

⁶ Many seek favor from rulers;
    everyone befriends a gift giver.
⁷ All the relatives of the poor hate them;
    even more, their friends stay far from them.
    When they pursue them with words, they aren’t there.

² The rich and the poor have this in common:
    the Lord made them both.

⁷ The wealthy rule over the poor;
    a borrower is a slave to a lender.

⁴ Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
    be smart enough to stop.
⁵ When your eyes fly to wealth
    it is gone; it grows wings
    like an eagle and flies heavenward.

⁷ Someone who is full refuses honey,
    but anything bitter tastes sweet to a hungry person.

⁶ Better to be poor and walk in innocence
    than to be on crooked paths and wealthy.

⁸ Those who become rich through high interest rates
    gather money for those who are generous to the poor.

¹¹ Rich people think they are wise,
    but an insightful poor person sees through them.

²⁰ Reliable people will have abundant blessings,
    but those with get-rich-quick schemes won’t go unpunished.
²¹ Those who show favoritism aren’t good;
    people do wrong for a crust of bread.
²² The stingy try to get rich fast,
    unaware that loss will come to them.