If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done thee no harm.

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.

He that pleadeth his cause first'seemeth just; But his neighbor cometh and searcheth him out.

For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause; And deceive not with thy lips.

Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself , And disclose not the secret of another;

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it .

Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.