⁶ It is better to be poor and ·innocent [walk blamelessly]
than to be rich and ·wicked [^Lbe on crooked paths].

⁷ Children who ·obey what they have been taught [protect instruction/law] are wise,
but friends of ·troublemakers [or gluttons] disgrace their parents [Deut. 28:18–21].

⁸ Some people get rich by ·overcharging others [^Linterest and surcharge; Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:20],
but their wealth will be given to those who are ·kind [gracious] to the poor.