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Keep falsehood and lies far from me.
Give me neither poverty nor riches,
but feed me with my allotted bread,[a]
lest I become satisfied and deny You
    and say, “Who is Adonai?”
Or lest I become poor, and steal
    and profane the Name of my God.

A Filthy, Haughty Generation

10 Do not slander a servant to his master,
or he will curse you, and you pay for it.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:8 cf. Matt. 6:11.