^8-10 Don’t be hotheaded and rush to court! You may start something you can’t finish and go down before your neighbor in shameful defeat. So discuss the matter with him privately. Don’t tell anyone else, lest he accuse you of slander and you can’t withdraw what you said.

²⁵ Come to terms quickly with your enemy before it is too late and he drags you into court and you are thrown into a debtor’s cell,

²⁶ for you will stay there until you have paid the last penny.

⁵⁸ “If you meet your accuser on the way to court, try to settle the matter before it reaches the judge, lest he sentence you to jail;

⁵⁹ for if that happens, you won’t be free again until the last penny is paid in full.”