Bible Browser

¹⁹Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread,
but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
²⁰The faithful will abound with blessings,
but one who is in a hurry to be rich will not go unpunished.
²¹To show partiality is not good—
yet for a piece of bread a person may do wrong.
²²The miser is in a hurry to get rich
and does not know that loss is sure to come.
²³Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor
than one who flatters with the tongue.
²⁴Anyone who robs father or mother
and says, “That is no crime,”
is partner to a thug.
²⁵The greedy person stirs up strife,
but whoever trusts in the Lord will be enriched.
²⁶Those who trust in their own wits are fools;
but those who walk in wisdom come through safely.
²⁷Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing,
but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.
²⁸When the wicked prevail, people go into hiding;
but when they perish, the righteous increase.