Proverbs 21:5–6

⁴He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

⁴The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

¹¹And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

¹²That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

²⁸Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

²³Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

²⁴For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

²⁵The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

²⁶The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

²⁷And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

²⁹He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

²²He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

²¹An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

¹¹Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

²Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

¹¹As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

²¹An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

³⁶But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

⁹But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

¹⁰For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

¹⁴It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

⁸He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

⁸Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

¹¹Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

³¹¶ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?