23. For Hashem will plead their cause, and plunder the nefesh of those that plundered them.
24. Make no friendship with a ba'al af (angry man), and with an ish chemot (man of wrath) thou shalt not go,
25. Lest thou learn his orkhot (ways), and take a mokesh (snare) for thy nefesh.
26. Be not thou one of them that shake hands in a pledge, or of them that are collateral for masha'ot (debts, loans).
27. If thou hast nothing with which to pay, why should he take away thy mishkav (bed) from under thee?
28. Remove not the gevul olam (ancient landmark), which avoteicha have set.
29. Seest thou an ish mahir (diligent, one who excells) in his work? He shall stand before melachim; he shall not stand before obscure men.