^4 (A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
^(B)Because of your understanding, cease!
⁵ Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there!
Because ^(C)it certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

^6 (A)Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
Than he who is crooked—^[a]double dealing—though he be rich.

⁸ He who increases his wealth by ^(A)interest and usury
Gathers it ^(B)for him who is gracious to the lowly.

¹¹ The rich man is ^(A)wise in his own eyes,
But the lowly who understands ^[a]searches him.

²⁰ A ^(A)faithful man will abound with blessings,
But he who ^(B)makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
²¹ To ^[a](C)show partiality is not good,
^(D)Even for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
²² A man with an ^(E)evil eye ^(F)hurries after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.