The righteous hate what is false,(A)
    but the wicked make themselves a stench
    and bring shame on themselves.

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11 Dishonest money dwindles away,(A)
    but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.

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Better a little with righteousness
    than much gain(A) with injustice.(B)

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13 Whoever conceals their sins(A) does not prosper,
    but the one who confesses(B) and renounces them finds mercy.(C)

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18 The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe,(A)
    but the one whose ways are perverse will fall(B) into the pit.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:18 Syriac (see Septuagint); Hebrew into one

24 The accomplices of thieves are their own enemies;
    they are put under oath and dare not testify.(A)

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