²⁹ Do not say, “I will do to others as they have done to me;
    I will pay them back for what they have done.”^(A)

²¹ If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat,
    and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink,^(A)
22 for you will heap coals of fire on their heads,
    and the Lord will reward you.^(B)

²⁸ Like a city breached, without walls,
    is one who lacks self-control.^(A)

⁴ Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,
    but who is able to stand before jealousy?

⁸ Scoffers set a city aflame,
    but the wise turn away wrath.^(A)
9 If the wise go to law with fools,
    there is ranting and ridicule without relief.