⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

²⁰ Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.

²⁷ For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

¹³ A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

³ He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works `are' truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

³ The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place `is' his habitation, He is saying in his heart, `Who doth bring me down `to' earth?')

⁴ If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹¹ and now, I did write to you not to keep company with `him', if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner -- with such a one not even to eat together;

¹¹ Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

³ aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

⁶ be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

⁹ Men of slander have been in thee to shed blood, And on the mountains they have eaten in thee, Wickedness they have done in thy midst.

¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day.

¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

¹⁶ `Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I `am' Jehovah.

³ Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

¹² See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

² Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

³ Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

⁴ The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.

⁶ For high `is' Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

¹⁶ These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven `are' abominations to His soul.

¹⁷ Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

¹⁸ A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

¹⁹ A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

¹⁸ Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

¹⁹ A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.

²³ A north wind bringeth forth rain, And a secret tongue -- indignant faces.

¹⁶ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.