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Solomon compares the desire of a wise/righteous to the fool/wicked and the results thereof.
He teaches that positive aspirations end in good to others as well as to the righteous themselves while those who advantage themselves by disadvantaging others will eventually experience what they intended for others
People who give freely will grow more prosperous, while the people who withhold unduly will come to poverty, as an outcome for being generous or stingy
In addition, holding back from giving does not guarantee the sufficiency of your resources
Some people hoard when they sense a coming scarcity so that they can sell at an inflated rate to make multiple-fold profits but such persons are considered selfish.
A generous man instead, is more concerned about the well-being of the community than selfish gain; he trusts in his God and not his wealth, such will not fall
In the sixth chapter of Paul’s letter to the churches in Galatia, he admonishes the believers to do good to all, and established that man will reap what he sows.
The believers in Galatia are also to share their material goods with their instructors as a means of expressing their gratitude for the spiritual goods received
They should not be tired of doing good, especially to other believers, bearing in mind that the reward for doing good will come at its appropriate time
He also includes a spiritual implication to the principle of sowing and reaping by comparing sowing unto the flesh to sowing unto the Spirit
Sowing of the flesh means living to gratify the sinful flesh while sowing of the Spirit means living to please the Holy Spirit
Those who sow of the flesh will end up in destruction, of the present life and the age to come, while those who sow of the Spirit will end up in eternal life