My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death,
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the
Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers o
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.