Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.
if I have eaten its fruit without payment, or caused its owners to die;
His trouble turns back upon his own head, And his wrongdoing comes down on the top of his head.
Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the broad places.
He who is greedy for gain, troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes lives.
He who shares with a thief hates his own life; He hears an oath, but does not report.
There is a sickly evil I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner, for his evil.
“Woe to him who is getting evil gain for his house, in order to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of evil!
not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of money,
“When I saw among the spoil a lovely garment from Shinʽ
And Yehoshua said, “Why have you troubled us? יהוה does trouble you today!” Then all Yisra’ĕ
and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.