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A rich person rules poor people,
and a borrower is a slave to a lender.
Whoever plants injustice will harvest trouble,
and this weapon of his own fury will be destroyed.
Whoever is generous will be blessed
because he has shared his food with the poor.

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The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,(A)
    and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.(B)

The generous will themselves be blessed,(C)
    for they share their food with the poor.(D)

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