Miscellaneous Topics : Qualifications of a Brahmana - Verse 38

What is given to a trader is not beneficial here or hereafter. The same is the case in regard to a person who misappropriates (deposits), who is knavish and who hates the Vedas. 39-42a. That which is given to a merchant or an artisan devoid of virtue becomes lost; a merchant despises (underrates)