The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.

A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.

If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

When I saw this, I gave careful consideration to it; I received instruction from what I saw:

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge.

She considers a field and buys it; from her own income she plants a vineyard.

Can spoils be taken from a warrior, or captives be rescued from a conqueror?

And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

But take a few strands of hair from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.

“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the Lord and before his chosen king. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, and I will return it to you!”

He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.