5. Every word of God is fire-tested. He is a bronze shield to those who hope in him.
6. Do not add anything to his words, lest you be reproved and be discovered to be a liar.
7. Two things I have asked of you; do not deny them to me before I die.
8. Remove, far from me, vanity and lying words. Give me neither begging, nor wealth. Apportion to me only the necessities of my life,
9. lest perhaps, being filled, I might be enticed into denial, and say: 'Who is the Lord?' Or, being compelled by destitution, I might steal, and then perjure myself in the name of my God.
10. Do not accuse a servant to his lord, lest he curse you, and you fall.
11. There is a generation which curses their father, and which does not bless their mother.
12. There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.
13. There is a generation, whose eyes have been elevated, and their eyelids are lifted on high.
14. There is a generation which has swords in place of teeth, and which commands their molars to devour the indigent from the earth and the poor from among men.