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28 Don’t testify against your neighbors without cause;
    don’t lie about them.

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28 Do not be a (A)witness against your neighbor for no reason,
And (B)do not deceive with your lips.

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28 Do not testify against your neighbor without cause(A)
    would you use your lips to mislead?

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Better to be poor and honest
    than to be dishonest and rich.

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(A)Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity,
Than a person who is [a]crooked, though he is rich.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:6 Lit perverse of two ways

Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.(A)

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13 People who conceal their sins will not prosper,
    but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

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13 One who (A)conceals his wrongdoings will not prosper,
But one who (B)confesses and abandons them will find compassion.

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13 Whoever conceals their sins(A) does not prosper,
    but the one who confesses(B) and renounces them finds mercy.(C)

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23 In the end, people appreciate honest criticism
    far more than flattery.

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23 One who (A)rebukes a person will afterward find more favor
Than one who (B)flatters with the tongue.

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23 Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor
    rather than one who has a flattering tongue.(A)

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