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.

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

³ The Lord will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish,
    but He casts away the desire of the wicked.

⁴ He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand,
    but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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

²² The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
    and He adds no sorrow with it.

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

²⁵ The generous soul will be made rich,
    and he who waters will be watered also himself.

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

⁷ There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing;
    there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

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

¹¹ Wealth gained by vanity will be diminished,
    but he who gathers by labor will increase.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
    and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.