⁴ Wealth maketh many friends;
    but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

⁶ Many will intreat the favour of the prince:
    and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him:
    how much more do his friends go far from him?
he pursueth them with words,
    yet they are wanting to him.

² The rich and poor meet together:
    the Lord is the maker of them all.

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor,
    and the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁷ The full soul loatheth an honeycomb;
but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness,
than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

⁸ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance,
he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own conceit;
but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

²⁰ A faithful man shall abound with blessings:
but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

²¹ To have respect of persons is not good:
for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

²² He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye,
and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.