Hab 2:5-11, Zep 1:9, Zec 5:3-4, Jam 5:1-4 | ESV | STEP | Moreover , wine is a traitor , an arrogant man who is never at rest . His greed is as wide as Sheol ; like death he has never enough . He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples .

5 “Moreover, wine ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth} is ^ba traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain}
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death ^dhe has never enough.
^eHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

6 Shall not all these ^ftake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

^g“Woe to him ^hwho heaps up what is not his own—
for ⁱhow long?—
and ^jloads himself with pledges!”
7 ^kWill not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 ^lBecause you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
^mfor the blood of man and ⁿviolence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
9 ^o“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
^pto ^qset his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
^rby cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.
11 For ^sthe stone will cry out from the wall,
and the beam from the woodwork respond.

Zephaniah 1:9

9 On that day I will punish
everyone ^twho leaps over the threshold,
and those who fill their master’s ^{▼▼Or their Lord’s} house
with violence and fraud.

Zechariah 5:3-4

3 Then he said to me, “This is ^vthe curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who ^wsteals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who ^xswears falsely ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)} shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of ^zhim who swears falsely by my name. And ^aait shall remain in his house and ^abconsume it, both timber and stones.”

James 5:1-4

Warning to the Rich

1 Come now, ^acyou rich, weep and howl for the ^admiseries that are coming upon you. 2 ^aeYour riches have rotted and ^afyour garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. ^agYou have laid up treasure ^ahin the last days. 4 Behold, ^aithe wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and ^ajthe cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of ^akthe Lord of hosts.