52 If you have just a few precious stones, will you add them to lead and clay?” (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:52
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Proverbs 17:15–17
15 Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous— both are detestable to the LORD. 16 Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom? 17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Job 36:18–20
18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray. 19 Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress? 20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
2 Esdras 7:56–58
56 but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, and lead than iron, and clay than lead.’ (WEB) 57 Judge therefore which things are precious and to be desired, what is abundant or what is rare?” (WEB) 58 I said, “O sovereign Lord, that which is… (WEB)
Job 22:23–25
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents 24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines, 25 then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
Wisdom of Solomon 8:4–6
4 For she is initiated into the knowledge of God, and she chooses his works. (WEB) 5 But if riches are a desired possession in life, what is richer than wisdom, which makes all things? (WEB) 6 And if understanding is effective, who more than wisdom is an architect of the things… (WEB)
Job 28:16–18
16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. 17 Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it. 18 Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
1 Esdras 4:17–19
17 Women also make garments for men. These bring glory to men. Without women, men can’t exist. (WEB) 18 Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other beautiful thing, and see a woman who is lovely in appearance and beauty, (WEB) 19 they let all those things g… (WEB)
Lamentations 4:1–3
1 How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner. 2 How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands! 3 E…
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