{27:6} The furnace tests the potter’s vessels, and the trial of the tribulation tests just men.
{27:7} As the pruning of a tree reveals its fruit, so does a word reveal the thoughts in the heart of a man.
{27:8} You should not praise a man before he speaks; for such is the testing of men.
{27:9} If you pursue justice, you will obtain it. And you will be clothed with justice, as with a long robe of honor. And you will live with justice. And justice will protect you continually. And on the day of reckoning, you will find a strong foundation.
{27:10} Birds flock to their own kind. And truth will return to those who practice it.

{27:1} Because of need, many have sinned. And whoever seeks to be enriched, averts his eye.
{27:2} Like a post fixed in the middle of adjoining stones, so also will sin become wedged between selling and buying.
{27:3} Sin will be crushed with the one who sins.
{27:4} If you do not hold yourself steadfastly to the fear of the Lord, your house will be quickly overthrown.
{27:5} Just as the dust remains when one shakes a sieve, so will the doubt of a man remain in his thoughts.