⁹ Honor the Lord with your wealth,
    with the firstfruits^(A) of all your crops;
¹⁰ then your barns will be filled^(B) to overflowing,
    and your vats will brim over with new wine.^(C)

¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,^(A)
    but poverty is the ruin of the poor.^(B)

⁴ Wealth^(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,^(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.^(C)

²⁸ Those who trust in their riches will fall,^(A)
    but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.^(B)

⁸ A person’s riches may ransom their life,
    but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.^(A)

²⁰ The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.^(A)

²⁴ The wealth of the wise is their crown,
    but the folly of fools yields folly.^(A)

¹⁶ Better a little with the fear of the Lord
    than great wealth with turmoil.^(A)

¹⁷ Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.^(B)

⁵ Whoever mocks the poor^(A) shows contempt for their Maker;^(B)
    whoever gloats over disaster^(C) will not go unpunished.^(D)