¹ The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him. ² When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. ³ The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. ⁴ Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. ⁵ The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight, but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness. ⁶ The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires. ⁷ Hopes placed in mortals die with them; all the promise of their power comes to nothing. ⁸ The righteous person is rescued from trouble, and it falls on the wicked instead.