“Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.”
Proverbs 1:19 (BSB)
Context Reading
17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! 18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. 19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors. 20Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square; 21in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech: