<p class="poetry">I have become a brother to jackalsp> <p class="poetry">and a companion of ostriches.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone must be on his guard around his friends.p> <p class="poetry">He must not even trust any of his relatives.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For every one of them will find some way to cheat him.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">And all of his friends will tell lies about him.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who<n id="1" /> is slack<n id="2" /> in his workp> <p class="poetry">is a brother<n id="3" /> to one who destroys.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">A relative<n id="1" /> offended<n id="2" /> is harder to reach than<n id="3" /> a strong city,p> <p class="poetry">and disputes are like the barred gates<n id="4" /> of a fortified citadel.<n id="5" />p>

(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.)<n id="1" /> Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

<p class="bodytext">Israel said, &#8220;Why did you bring this trouble<n id="1" /> on me by telling<n id="2" /> the man you had one more brother?&#8221;p>

My lord asked his servants, &#8216;Do you have a father or a brother?&#8217;

<p class="poetry">Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Suppose such a man has<n id="1" /> a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things<n id="2" /> mentioned previously

As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.p>

<p class="poetry">So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.p> <p class="poetry">At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.p> <p class="poetry">Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have shown love to you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lord,sc> but you say, &#8220;How have you shown love to us?&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;Esau was Jacob&#8217;s brother,&#8221; the <sc>Lordsc> explains, &#8220;yet I chose Jacob

<p class="bodytext">They replied, &#8220;The man questioned us<n id="1" /> thoroughly<n id="2" /> about ourselves and our family, saying, &#8216;Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?&#8217;<n id="3" /> So we answered him in this way.<n id="4" /> How could we possibly know<n id="5" /> that he would say,<n id="6" /> &#8216;Bring your brother down&#8217;?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, &#8220;Ah!&#8221; because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence.<n id="1" />