⁴ Wealth brings many friends,
    but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

⁶ Many curry favor of an official;
    everyone is a friend of the gift giver.

⁷ All the relatives of a poor person shun him—
    how much more do his friends avoid him!
Though he runs after them pleading,
    they aren’t around.

² The rich and the poor have this in common—
    the Lord created both of them.

⁷ The wealthy rule over the poor,
    and anyone who borrows is a slave to the lender.

⁴ Don’t exhaust yourself acquiring wealth;
    be smart enough to stop.
⁵ When you fix your gaze on it, it’s gone,
    for it sprouts wings for itself
        and flies to the sky like an eagle.

⁷ The person^[a] who is full spurns honey,
    but to a hungry person even the bitter seems sweet.

⁶ It’s better to be poor and live a blameless life
    than to be rich but crooked in one’s lifestyle.

⁸ Whoever gains wealth by charging exorbitant^[a] interest
    collects it for someone who is kind to the poor.

²⁰ The faithful man will prosper with blessings,
    but whoever is in a hurry to get rich
        will not escape punishment.

²¹ To show partiality isn’t good,
    yet for a piece of bread the valiant will transgress.

²² The miser^[a] is in a hurry to get wealthy,
    but he isn’t aware that poverty will catch up with him.