²⁷ Do not withhold good from its owner^[a]
    when it is in the power of your hand to do.
²⁸ Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Go and return and tomorrow I will give it,”
    when it is with you.^[b]
29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
    who dwells in confidence beside you.
³⁰ Do not quarrel with anyone without cause,
    when he did not do you harm.
³¹ Do not envy a man of violence,
    and do not choose any of his ways,
³² for he who is perverse is an abomination of Yahweh,
    but those who are upright are his confidence.

² Treasures of wickedness do not profit,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

³ He who keeps his mouth guards his life;^[a]
    he who opens his lips, ruin belongs to him.

¹¹ Wealth gained from haste^[a] will dwindle,
    but he who gathers little by little^[b] will increase it.