¹⁷ Don’t ·be happy [rejoice] when your enemy ·is defeated [^Lfalls];
    don’t let your heart be glad when he ·is overwhelmed [^Lstumbles].
¹⁸ The Lord will notice and ·be displeased [^Lit will be bad in his eyes].
    He may ·not be angry with them anymore [^Lturn his anger from them; Job 31:29; Ps. 35:15–16; Rom. 12:17–21].

²⁸ Don’t ·testify [witness] against your neighbor for no good reason.
    Don’t ·say things that are false [^Ldeceive with your lips].
²⁹ Don’t say, “·I’ll get even [^LAs they did to me so I will do to them];
    I’ll ·do to him what he did to me [repay them according to their actions].”