¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.^(A)

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
    but righteousness delivers from death.^(A)

²⁸ Those who trust in their riches will wither,^[a]
    but the righteous will flourish like green leaves.^(A)

⁸ Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life,
    but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.

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

²⁴ The crown of the wise is their wealth,
    but folly is the garland^[a] of fools.

¹⁶ Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
    than great treasure and trouble with it.^(A)
17 Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is
    than a fatted ox and hatred with it.^(B)

⁵ Those who mock the poor insult their Maker;
    those who are glad at calamity will not go unpunished.^(A)

¹⁶ Why should fools have a price in hand
    to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?