⁹ Honor Yahweh from your substance,^[a]
    and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you,
¹⁰ and your barns shall be full of plenty,
    and your vats shall burst with new wine.

¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

⁴ Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath,
    but righteousness will deliver from death.

²⁸ He who trusts in his wealth is he who will fall,
    but like a green leaf the righteous will flourish.

⁸ The ransom of the life of a man is his wealth,
    but the poor does not receive a threat.

²⁰ The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
    but the lovers of the rich are many.

²⁴ The crown of the wise is their wealth;
    the folly of fools is folly.

¹⁶ Better is little with the fear of Yahweh
    than great treasure and trouble with it.^[a]
17 Better is a dinner of vegetables when^[b] love is there
    than a fattened ox and hatred with it.^[c]

⁵ He who mocks the poor insults him who made him;
    he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

¹⁶ Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool,
    in order to buy wisdom where^[a] there is no sense.^[b]