²⁴ There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,
And there is one who holds back what is rightly due, and yet results only in want.
²⁵ The soul ^[a]that ^(A)blesses will be ^[b]enriched,
And he who ^(B)waters will himself be watered.
²⁶ He who withholds grain, the ^(C)people will curse him,
But ^(D)blessing will be on the head of him who ^(E)sells it.

^23 (A)Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,
But ^[a]it is swept away by injustice.

²⁵ Yahweh will ^(A)tear down the house of the proud,
But He will ^(B)cause the boundary of the ^(C)widow to stand.

⁵ He who mocks the ^(A)poor reproaches his Maker;
He who is ^(B)glad at disaster will not go unpunished.