Like a muddied ¹  spring and a polluted ²  well, so is a righteous person who gives way ³  before the wicked.

Like a city that is broken down and without a wall, so is a person who cannot control his temper. ¹ 

Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person ¹  to kindle strife. ² 

The words of a gossip are like delicious morsels; they go down into a person’s innermost being. ¹ 

Like a bird that wanders ¹  from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home. ² 

A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going ¹  and suffer for it.

The righteous person cares for ¹  the legal rights ²  of the poor; the wicked does not understand such ³  knowledge.

The poor person and the oppressor ¹  have this in common: ²  the Lord gives light ³  to the eyes of them both.

A person’s pride ¹  will bring him low, ²  but one who has a lowly spirit ³  will gain honor.

For ¹  there is not one truly ²  righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

Whoever obeys his ¹  command will not experience harm, and a wise person ²  knows the proper time ³  and procedure.

A wise person’s good sense protects him, ¹  but a fool’s lack of sense leaves him vulnerable. ² 

The words of a wise person ¹  win him ²  favor, ³  but the words ⁴  of a fool are self-destructive. ⁵ 

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer ¹  for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer ²  for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. ³ 

No one ¹  could see ²  another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

The same law will apply ¹  to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”

So they gathered it each morning, ¹  each person according to what he could eat, and when the sun got hot, it would melt. ² 

And ¹  on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers ²  per person; ³  and all the leaders ⁴  of the community ⁵  came and told ⁶  Moses.

“Tell the Israelites to take ¹  an offering ²  for me; from every person motivated by a willing ³  heart you ⁴  are to receive my offering.

Moses summoned ¹  Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person in whom ²  the Lord had put skill – everyone whose heart stirred him ³  to volunteer ⁴  to do the work,