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12 Hatred stirs up strife,
    but love covers all wrongs.

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12 Hatred stirs up conflicts,
but love covers all offenses.(A)

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17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
    than a fattened calf with hatred.

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17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened ox(A) with hatred.(B)

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Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker.
    He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

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The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker,(A)
and one who rejoices over calamity
will not go unpunished.(B)

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17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
    Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him,
    and he turn away his wrath from him.

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17 Don’t gloat when your enemy falls,
and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,(A)
18 or the Lord will see, be displeased,
and turn his wrath away from him.

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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat.
    If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
    and Yahweh will reward you.

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21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,(A)
22 for you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the Lord will reward you.(B)

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