11 A false balance and unrighteous dealings are extremely offensive and shamefully sinful to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.^(A)

⁸ Better is a little with righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation and right standing with God) than great revenues with injustice.^(A)

⁶ Securing treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro; those who seek them seek death.

¹⁶ He who oppresses the poor to get gain for himself and he who gives to the rich—both will surely come to want.

¹¹ Like the partridge that gathers a brood which she did not hatch and sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches by unjust means and not by right. He will leave them, or they will leave him, in the midst of his days, and at his end he will be a fool.

⁸ Will a man rob or defraud God? Yet you rob and defraud Me. But you say, In what way do we rob or defraud You? [You have withheld your] tithes and offerings.