Thematic Bible: Compromise
Thematic Bible
Compromise » Before litigation, encouraged
Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.
'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast, verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.
for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison; I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till even the last mite thou mayest give back.'