² A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, But he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

³⁵ For whoever finds me, finds life, And will obtain favor from Yahweh.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

⁵ It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

³¹ Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.

¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

⁸ There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

⁵ The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

⁶ For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

⁷ The instruments of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

²⁴ For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

⁷ For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.