⁸ A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it:
    whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

²³ A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom
    to pervert the ways of judgment.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
    but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

³ To do justice and judgment
    is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

⁷ The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them;
    because they refuse to do judgment.

⁸ The way of man is froward and strange:
    but as for the pure, his work is right.

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor:
neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
²³ for the Lord will plead their cause,
and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

²³ These things also belong to the wise.
It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
²⁴ He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous;
him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:
²⁵ but to them that rebuke him shall be delight,
and a good blessing shall come upon them.
²⁶ Every man shall kiss his lips
that giveth a right answer.

³ A poor man that oppresseth the poor
is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness,
than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

⁸ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance,
he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.