⁹ Honor the Lord with your substance,
    and with the first fruits of all your increase;
¹⁰ so your barns will be filled with plenty,
    and your presses will burst out with new wine.

¹⁵ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city;
    the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches will fall,
    but the righteous will flourish as a branch.

⁸ The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
    but the poor does not hear rebuke.

²⁰ The poor is hated even by his own neighbor,
    but the rich has many friends.

²⁴ The crown of the wise is their riches,
    but the foolishness of fools is folly.

¹⁶ Better is little with the fear of the Lord
    than great treasure with trouble.

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
    than a fatted calf with hatred.

⁵ Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker,
    and he who is glad at calamities will not be unpunished.

¹⁶ Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,
    seeing he has no heart for it?