Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
An inheritance gained quickly will not be blessed in the end.
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty awaits him.
Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is n
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his ric
For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.