2 By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.
3 A man [who is] poor and oppresses the impoverished [is] a beating rain {that leaves} no food.
4 Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.
6 Better [to be] poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one [is] rich.
7 He who keeps instruction [is] a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father.
8 He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
10 He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
12 When the righteous triumphs, great [is] the glory, but with [the] rising of the wicked, a person will be hidden.
13 He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.
14 Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity.
16 A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.
17 A person who is burdened with [the] blood of {another}, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.
19 He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty [of] poverty.
20 A man of faithfulness [has] abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished.
21 {Showing partiality} [is] not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong.
22 He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye}, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.
23 He who rebukes a person will afterward find [more] favor than he who flatters [with the] tongue.
24 He who robs his father and his mother and says, "There is no crime," is partner to a man who corrupts.
27 [For] he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but [for] he who turns his eyes, [there are] many curses.