8. Remove falsehood and a lying word far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me my portion of bread;
9. Lest I become satisfied and deny You, And say, “Who is יהוה?” And lest I be poor, and steal, And seize the Name of my Elohim.
10. Do not slander a servant to his master, Lest he curse you, And you be found guilty.
11. There is a generation that curses its father, And does not bless its mother –
12. There is a generation, clean in its own eyes, But not washed from its own filth.
13. There is a generation; Oh, how haughty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
14. There is a generation whose teeth are swords, And whose jaw-teeth are knives, To devour the poor from off the earth, And the needy from among men.
15. The leech has two daughters: “Give! Give!” Three are not satisfied, Four that never say, “Enough”:
16. The grave, and the barren womb, Soil not satisfied with water, And fire which never says, “Enough.”