²⁶ He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.

¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

⁶ Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

²⁴ He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.

⁴ Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

⁵ Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

⁶ Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.