19 You should not forget the kindness of your benefactor. For he has offered his life on your behalf.
20 The sinner and the unclean flee from such promises.
21 A sinner attributes to himself the goods of his loan. And an ungrateful mind will abandon the one who has freed him.
22 A man offers credit to his neighbor. But when he will have lost respect, he will abandon him.
23 A wicked promise has destroyed many who had good intentions, and has tossed them like a wave on the ocean.
24 It has caused powerful men to travel around, and they have wandered amid foreign nations.
25 A sinner transgressing the commandment of the Lord will fall into a wicked promise. And he who undertakes many things will fall into judgment.