Take heed to yourself that there be not a secret thing in your heart- an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is approaching. And your eye shall be evil to your brother that is in need, and you shall not give to him, and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in you.

He that is tender and very delicate within you shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;

And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not ventured to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,

And it seemed evil in the eyes of Saul concerning this matter, and he said, To David they have given ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands?

[This translation omits this verse.]

Eat not with an envious man, neither desire his meats;

An envious man makes haste to be rich, and knows not that the merciful man will have the mastery over him.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own [things]? Or is your eye evil because I am good?'

But Hezekiah did not recompense the Lord according to the favor shown him, but his heart was lifted up. And wrath came upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

And Hezekiah humbled himself after the exaltation of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him, to inquire of him [concerning] the wonders which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to test him, to know what was in his heart.

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [Him]; God is not before him.

Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?

If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, from there will I bring you down, says the Lord.

casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,

Likewise, younger [people], subject yourselves to [the] elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

An understanding man is a throne of wisdom, but the heart of fools shall meet with curses.

Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are [then] far from him.

The fools also dies in sins, and uncleanness [attaches] to a pestilent man.

Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will [still] in no way remove his folly from him.

I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may silence the ignorance of foolish men--