An inheritance {may be} gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Go to now, {ye} rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon {you}.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. {unjust...: Heb. by increase}

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. {innocent: or, unpunished}

A good {man} leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner {is} laid up for the just.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, {and} look well to thy herds. {look...: Heb. set thy heart}

He that hasteth to be rich {hath} an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. {hasteth...: or, hath an evil eye hasteth to be rich}

{As} the partridge sitteth {on eggs}, and hatcheth {them} not; {so} he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. {sitteth...: or, gathereth young which she hath not brought forth}

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth {that which is} not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! {Woe...: or, Ho, he}

For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy {shalt} thou {be}, and {it shall be} well with thee.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and {there is} nothing in his hand.

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, {and} in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

Because he hath oppressed {and} hath forsaken the poor; {because} he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; {oppressed: Heb. crushed}

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. {innocent: or, unpunished}

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue {is} a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet {hath} nothing: {there is} that maketh himself poor, yet {hath} great riches.

{As} the partridge sitteth {on eggs}, and hatcheth {them} not; {so} he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. {sitteth...: or, gathereth young which she hath not brought forth}

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with {his} hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. {to give: or, to distribute}

And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which {was} also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place {were} Benjamites.