1. Don’t deprive a poor person’s life,and don’t avoid lookingthe needy in the eyes.
2. Don’t grieve a hungry person,and don’t make a personin dire straits angry.
3. Don’t trouble an angry person,and don’t put off giving to the needy.
4. Don’t keep rejecting the pleaof someone in distress,and don’t turn your faceaway from the poor.
5. Don’t turn youreyes away from someone begging,and don’t give anyone an opportunityto curse you.
6. If some curse youin their bitter circumstances,the one who made themwill hear their prayer.
7. Behave yourself pleasantly in the assembly,and bow your headto an influential person.
8. Listen to the poor,and reply with peacefuland gentle speech.
9. Set the wronged freefrom the hand of the wrongdoer,and don’t be timidwhen you give judgment.
10. Be like a parent to orphans,and take care of their mothersas you would your own wife or husband.Do this, and you will be like a childof the Most High,and God will love youmore than your own mother does.
11. Wisdom will exalther childrenand take hold of those who seek her.
12. Whoever loves her loves life.Those who wake early for herwill be filled with gladness.
13. Those who possess her will inherit glory.The Lord blesses the placewhere they enter.