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)

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

¹⁶ Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom,
    when they are not able to understand it?^(A)

¹¹ The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;^(A)
    they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

²³ The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.