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15 The wealth of the rich is their strong city;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:15 An observation rather than a moral evaluation of wealth and poverty; but cf. 18:10–11.

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath,[a](A)
    but justice saves from death.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:4 Cf. note on 10:2. A day of wrath is an unforeseen disaster (even death). Only one’s relationship to God, which makes one righteous, is of any help on such a day.

19 They fling their silver into the streets, and their gold is considered unclean.(A) Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their bellies, for it has been the occasion of their sin.

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26 What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

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