A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.
“See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”
The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.
For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’
And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
“If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence, if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much,
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