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If you make people pay more when you lend money to them,
    you may become rich.
But someone else will enjoy your riches.
    They will go to someone who is kind to poor people.
If you refuse to listen to God's law,
    God will refuse to listen to your prayers.
10 If you cause a good person to do evil things,
    your own evil trap will catch you.
But people who do nothing wrong will receive good things.

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Whoever increases wealth by taking interest(A) or profit from the poor
    amasses it for another,(B) who will be kind to the poor.(C)

If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction,
    even their prayers are detestable.(D)

10 Whoever leads the upright along an evil path
    will fall into their own trap,(E)
    but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.

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