28  Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause,

and do not deceive with your lips.

29  ^pDo not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;

I will pay the man back for what he has done.”

7  for it is better to be told, “Come up here,”

than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.

^yWhat your eyes have seen

18  A man who bears false witness against his neighbor

is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.