28 Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause.(A)
Don’t deceive with your lips.

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28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
    and do not deceive with your lips.(A)

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Better the poor person who lives with integrity(A)
than the rich one who distorts right and wrong.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:6 Lit who twists two ways

Better to be poor and walk in integrity
    than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.(A)

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13 The one who conceals his sins
will not prosper,(A)
but whoever confesses and renounces them
will find mercy.(B)

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13 No one who conceals transgressions will prosper,
    but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.(A)

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23 One who rebukes a person will later find more favor(A)
than one who flatters with his tongue.(B)

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23 Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor
    than one who flatters with the tongue.(A)

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