Better `is' the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.
The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked `are' cruel.
According to his wisdom is a man praised, And the perverted of heart becometh despised.
There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.
This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;
because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'