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27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
    when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give it,”
    when you have it with you.
29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
    seeing he dwells securely by you.
30 Do not strive with a man without cause,
    if he has done you no harm.

31 Do not envy the oppressor,
    and choose none of his ways;
32 for the perverse is an abomination to the Lord,
    but His secret counsel is with the righteous.

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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
    but righteousness delivers from death.

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11 A false balance is abomination to the Lord,
    but a just weight is His delight.

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He who guards his mouth preserves his life,
    but he who opens wide his lips will have destruction.

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11 Wealth gained by vanity will be diminished,
    but he who gathers by labor will increase.

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He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,
    but he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.

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A faithful witness will not lie,
    but a false witness will utter lies.

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27 He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house,
    but he who hates bribes will live.

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By mercy and truth iniquity is purged;
    and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

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Better is a little with righteousness
    than great revenues with injustice.

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11 A just weight and balance belong to the Lord;
    all the weights of the bag are His work.

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A wise servant will have rule over a son who causes shame,
    and will have part of the inheritance among the brothers.

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A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it;
    wherever he turns, it prospers.

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23 A wicked man takes a bribe out of a hidden place
    to pervert the ways of judgment.

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21 An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning,
    but the end of it will not be blessed.

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To do justice and judgment
    is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue
    is a vanity tossed back and forth by those who seek death.

The violence of the wicked will destroy them,
    because they refuse to do justice.

The way of a guilty man is perverse;
    but as for the pure, his work is right.

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Saying Two

22 Do not rob the poor because he is poor,
    neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
23 for the Lord will plead their cause,
    and spoil the soul of those who spoiled them.

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More Sayings of the Wise

23 These things also belong to the wise:

It is not good to show partiality in judgment.
24 He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
    him the people will curse; nations will abhor him.
25 But to those who rebuke him will be delight,
    and a good blessing will come upon them.

26 Every man will kiss his lips
    that gives a right answer.

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A poor man who oppresses the poor
    is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

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Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness
    than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

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He who by usury and unjust gain increases his substance
    will gather it for him who will pity the poor.

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Open your mouth for the speechless
    in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
    and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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