²⁴ Those who give generously receive more,
    but those who are stingy with what is appropriate will grow needy.
²⁵ Generous persons will prosper;
    those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
²⁶ People curse those who hoard grain,
    but they bless those^[a] who sell it.

²³ A poor person’s land might produce much food,
    but it is unjustly swept away.

²⁵ The Lord snatches away the arrogant one’s house,
    but he preserves the widow’s boundaries.

⁵ Those who mock the poor insult their maker;
    those who rejoice in disaster won’t go unpunished.

⁴ Riches increase one’s friends,
    but the poor lose their friends.

⁷ All the relatives of the poor hate them;
    even more, their friends stay far from them.
    When they pursue them with words, they aren’t there.

¹⁷ Those who are gracious to the poor lend to the Lord,
    and the Lord will fully repay them.

¹³ Those who close their ears to the cries of the poor
    will themselves call out but receive no answer.

⁹ Happy are generous people,
    because they give some of their food to the poor.