¹³ Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

⁸ As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

⁷ Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap,

⁸ because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

⁸ Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

¹² Compassed Me with feigning hath Ephraim, And with deceit the house of Israel. And Judah again is ruling with God, And with the Holy Ones `is' faithful!

³ With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

¹¹ I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift `is' the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.

⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

²⁰ From the fruit of a man's mouth is his belly satisfied, `From the' increase of his lips he is satisfied.

²¹ Death and life `are' in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

¹⁹ The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

⁷ `Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'