18. For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you;Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
19. So that your trust may be in the Lord;I have instructed you today, even you.
20. Have I not written to you excellent thingsOf counsels and knowledge,
21. That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,That you may answer words of truthTo those who send to you?
22. Do not rob the poor because he is poor,Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;
23. For the Lord will plead their cause,And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.