⁴ Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor is separated from his friend.

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of a ruler,
    and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
⁷ All the relatives of the poor shun him:
    how much more do his friends avoid him!
    He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

² The rich and the poor have this in common:
    Yahweh is the maker of them all.

⁷ The rich rule over the poor.
    The borrower is servant to the lender.

⁴ Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
    In your wisdom, show restraint.
⁵ Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
    For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

⁷ A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
    but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

⁶ Better is the poor who walks in his integrity,
    than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

⁸ He who increases his wealth by excessive interest
    gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own eyes;
    but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

²⁰ A faithful man is rich with blessings;
    but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
²¹ To show partiality is not good;
    yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
²² A stingy man hurries after riches,
    and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.