Proverbs 20:21

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.

Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

“ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:

Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.”

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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

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

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

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.”

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.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.