¹⁵ A rich man’s wealth is his strong city;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

²⁴ One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
    another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
²⁵ A liberal man will be enriched,
    and one who waters will himself be watered.
²⁶ The people curse him who holds back grain,
    but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.

²³ The fallow ground of the poor yields much food,
    but it is swept away through injustice.

²⁵ The Lord tears down the house of the proud,
    but maintains the widow’s boundaries.

⁵ He who mocks the poor insults his Maker;
    he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.