² Tainted wealth has no lasting value,
    but right living can save your life.

⁴ Riches won’t help on the day of judgment,
    but right living can save you from death.

⁶ Wealth created by a lying tongue
    is a vanishing mist and a deadly trap.^[a]

¹⁸ Your silver and gold will not save you
    on that day of the Lord’s anger.
For the whole land will be devoured
    by the fire of his jealousy.
He will make a terrifying end
    of all the people on earth.^[a]

¹⁹ “They will throw their money in the streets,
    tossing it out like worthless trash.
Their silver and gold won’t save them
    on that day of the Lord’s anger.
It will neither satisfy nor feed them,
    for their greed can only trip them up.

²⁸ The way of the godly leads to life;
    that path does not lead to death.

⁶ They trust in their wealth
    and boast of great riches.
⁷ Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death^[a]
    by paying a ransom to God.
⁸ Redemption does not come so easily,
    for no one can ever pay enough
⁹ to live forever
    and never see the grave.

¹⁰ Those who are wise must finally die,
    just like the foolish and senseless,
    leaving all their wealth behind.