The wealth of the rich [is] the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.
The wealth of the rich [is] his strong city, The ruin of the poor [is] their poverty.
Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour [is] humility.
A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.
For wisdom [is] a defense, money [is] a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom [is], She reviveth her possessors.
Speak thus — an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.
For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!)