For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;