Then behold! A woman [comes] to meet him [with the] garment of a prostitute and {a secret heart}.

So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.

When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world,

{when he made} skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep,

Whoever walks in integrity will walk securely, but whoever follows perversity, his ways will be made known.

He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him.

All Yahweh has made [is] for his purpose, and even the wicked for the day of trouble.

He who mocks the poor insults him who made him; he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished.

[May] a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly.

Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?

The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made {them both}.

[In order] for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made [them] known to you {today}--even you.

Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made.

Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of {their meat}.

under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}.