The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

What the righteous desire leads only to good, but what the wicked hope for leads to wrath.

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.

An evil person seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich – both end up only in poverty.