If they say - Come with us, - Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;

Do not say to thy neighbour, Go and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee.

And thou shalt say - How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;

Say unto wisdom, My sister, thou! and, an acquaintance, call thou, understanding:

Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?

Do not say, I will requite wrong! Wait thou for Yahweh that he may save thee.

For, just as he hath thought in his own mind, so, he is: Eat and drink! he may say to thee, but, his heart, is not with thee.

Though thou say, Lo! we knew not this, Shall not, he that proveth hearts, himself, discern? And, he that formeth thy soul, himself, know? and bring back to a son of earth according to his deed?

Do not say - According to what he hath done to me, so, will I do to him, I will repay every one according to his work.

Lest I be full, and deny, and say - Who is Yahweh? or lest I be impoverished and steal, and do violence to the Name of my God.