20 A man of faithful acts* will get many blessings,+ but he that is hastening to gain riches will not remain innocent.+

23 Your princes are stubborn and partners with thieves.+ Every one of them is a lover of a bribe+ and a chaser after gifts.+ For a fatherless boy they do not render judgment; and even the legal case of a widow does not get admittance to them.+

27 As a cage is full of flying creatures, so their houses are full of deception.+ That is why they have become great and they gain riches.+

4 Look! The wages due the workers who harvested YOUR fields but which are held up by YOU,+ keep crying out,+ and the calls for help+ on the part of the reapers have entered into the ears+ of Jehovah* of armies.