This will be healing for your body
and strengthening for your bones.

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

The one who gives an answer before he listens—
this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

Don’t say, “I will avenge this evil!”
Wait on the Lord, and He will rescue you.

The rich and the poor have this in common:
the Lord made them both.

If you say, “But we didn’t know about this,”
won’t He who weighs hearts consider it?
Won’t He who protects your life know?
Won’t He repay a person according to his work?

The poor and the oppressor have this in common:
the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”