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The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.

All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.

A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.

Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

A false witness will be cut off, Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.

The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.