Add parallel Print Page Options

When it is time for God to punish you, money will not help you to escape.
    But if you are righteous, that will save you from death.
An honest man who is righteous has a straight path to walk on.
    But the sins of a wicked person will cause him to fall down.
When honest people are righteous, that will keep them safe.
    But the bad things that wicked people want will catch them in a trap.

Read full chapter

Wealth(A) is worthless in the day of wrath,(B)
    but righteousness delivers from death.(C)

The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,(D)
    but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.(E)

The righteousness of the upright delivers them,
    but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.(F)

Read full chapter