5. Justify not thyself before God, for he knoweth the heart: and desire not to appear wise before the king.
6. Seek not to be made a judge, unless thou have strength enough to extirpate iniquities: lest thou fear the person of the powerful, and lay a stumblingblock for thy integrity.
7. Offend not against the multitude of a city, neither cast thyself in upon the people,
8. Nor bind sin to sin: for even in one thou shalt not be unpunished.
9. Be not fainthearted in thy mind:
10. Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.
11. Say not: God will have respect to the multitude of my gifts, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept my offerings.
12. Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one that humbleth and exalteth, God who seeth
13. Devise not a lie against thy brother: neither do the like against thy friend.
14. Be not willing to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.
15. Be not full of words in a multitude of ancients, and repeat not the word in thy prayer.
16. Hate not laborious works, nor husbandry ordained by the most High.
17. Number not thyself among the multitude of the disorderly.
18. Remember wrath, for it will not tarry long.
19. Humble thy spirit very much: for the vengeance on the flesh of the ungodly is fire and worms.
20. Do not transgress against thy friend deferring money, nor despise thy dear brother for the sake of gold.
21. Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou best gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold.