The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
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