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

¹⁶ The wages of the righteous is life,^(C)
    but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death.^(D)

11 The Lord detests dishonest scales,^(A)
    but accurate weights find favor with him.^(B)

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

²⁴ One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
    another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

²⁶ People curse the one who hoards grain,
    but they pray God’s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.

²¹ Trouble pursues the sinner,^(A)
    but the righteous^(B) are rewarded with good things.^(C)

²³ An unplowed field produces food for the poor,
    but injustice sweeps it away.

⁸ Keep falsehood and lies far from me;
    give me neither poverty nor riches,
    but give me only my daily bread.^(A)
9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown^(B) you
    and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’^(C)
Or I may become poor and steal,
    and so dishonor the name of my God.^(D)