²² Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth `are' to those devising good,

² The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

⁷ `Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.

⁷ And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

⁸ And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

²² The desirableness of a man `is' his kindness, And better `is' the poor than a liar.

¹⁷ Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

²⁹ Devise not against thy neighbour evil, And he sitting confidently with thee.

⁷ He dwelleth to the age before God, Kindness and truth appoint -- they keep him.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah `are' kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

⁸ and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart,

²⁷ and saith, `Blessed `is' Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, who hath not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord; -- I `being' in the way, Jehovah hath led me to the house of my lord's brethren.'