1 The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion.
2 By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.
3 A man who is poor and oppresses the impoverished is a beating rain that leaves no food.
4 Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them.
5 Men of evil do not understand justice, but seekers of Yahweh understand completely.
6 Better to be poor and walking in one’s integrity than to be crooked of ways when one is rich.