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.