2
Do not lift a weight beyond your strength, nor associate with a man mightier and richer than you. How can the clay pot associate with the iron kettle? The pot will strike against it, and will itself be broken.
1
Whoever touches pitch will be defiled, and whoever associates with a proud man will become like him.
2
Do not lift a weight beyond your strength, nor associate with a man mightier and richer than you. How can the clay pot associate with the iron kettle? The pot will strike against it, and will itself be broken.
3
A rich man does wrong, and he even adds reproaches; a poor man suffers wrong, and he must add apologies.
4
A rich man will exploit you if you can be of use to him, but if you are in need he will forsake you.
5
If you own something, he will live with you; he will drain your resources and he will not care.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.