3. Get-rich-quick schemes are foolish and lead to poverty (Prov. 13:11; 28:19–20, 22). In every age, there are people who try to circumvent God’s way of achieving financial success by going after schemes that promise prosperity without hard work and skill. Such unwise and greedy schemes will sooner or later fail, thus increasing one’s financial woes. 4. Wages and prices are to be equitable (Jer. 22:13; James 5:1–7). The concern for fair wages for laborers is not merely a modern phenomenon. God’s