¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

²⁰ The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
    but the lovers of the rich are many.

¹¹ The wealth of the rich is his strong city,^[a]
    and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.

²³ The poor may speak entreaties,
    but the rich will answer roughly.

² Rich and poor have much in common;
    Yahweh is the maker of all of them.

⁷ The rich will rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is a slave of the lender.^[a]

¹⁶ He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself,
    or gives to the rich, will come to poverty.^[a]

⁶ Better to be poor and walking in one’s integrity
    than to be crooked of ways when one is rich.

¹¹ A man of wealth is wise in his own eyes,
    but the intelligent poor sees through him.