Question on Dhammapada verse In this verse of the Dhammapada, 


  Those who in youth have not led the holy life, or  have failed to
  acquire wealth, languish like old  cranes in the pond without fish.  Dhammapada 155.


Do those who have failed to acquire wealth refer to those who have decided to remain householders and didn't manage to properly earn a living, in order to for example raise a family, or does wealth refer here to spiritual qualities and virtues ?

With metta.
does wealth refer here to spiritual qualities and virtues ?


Wealth here literally means the wealth from householders. The background story to the verse might be helpful here: https://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/dhp/verseload.php?verse=155