⁴ Riches increase one’s friends,
    but the poor lose their friends.

⁶ Many seek favor from rulers;
    everyone befriends a gift giver.
⁷ All the relatives of the poor hate them;
    even more, their friends stay far from them.
    When they pursue them with words, they aren’t there.

² The rich and the poor have this in common:
    the Lord made them both.

⁷ The wealthy rule over the poor;
    a borrower is a slave to a lender.

⁴ Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
    be smart enough to stop.
⁵ When your eyes fly to wealth
    it is gone; it grows wings
    like an eagle and flies heavenward.