⁸ Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

²² A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous `is' the sinner's wealth.

³⁶ thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

³¹ An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

²⁵ `If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

¹⁷ From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.

¹³ In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.

⁸ In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

²⁶ For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

¹⁶ If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

¹⁷ He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth `it' on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion.

⁶ and the ewe-lamb he doth repay fourfold, because that he hath done this thing, and because that he had no pity.'