21 (A)To [a]show partiality is not good,
(B)Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

22 A man with an evil eye hastens after riches,
And does not consider that (C)poverty will come upon him.

23 (D)He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

24 Whoever robs his father or his mother,
And says, “It is no transgression,”
The same (E)is companion to a destroyer.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:21 Lit. recognize faces

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