Proverbs 14:11

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

My tent has been destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children have gone away from me, and they are no more. There is no one to spread my tent any more, to set up my curtains.

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

Jesus said to his disciples, “Most certainly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?