Study it in the app“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice; who makes his neighbor work for nothing and does not give him his wages;”
Woeהוֹיto him who buildsבֹּנֶהhis houseבֵיתוֹwithoutבְּלֹאrighteousness,צֶדֶקand his upper roomsוַעֲלִיּוֹתָיוwithoutבְּלֹאjustice;מִשְׁפָּטwho makes his neighborבְּרֵעֵהוּworkיַעֲבֹדfor nothingחִנָּםand does notוּ לֹאgiveיִתֶּןhimלוֹhis wages;פֹעֲלוֹ
woe
A cry of grief for the dead or a warning of disaster.
Where else “hoy” appearsbuild
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “bone” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “vet” appearsrighteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsedek” appearsupper room
A room built on the roof.
Where else “aliyotay” appearsjustice
What is right and fair.
Where else “mishpat” appearsneighbor
The person living near, anyone one deals with.
Where else “ree” appearsenslave
To make others serve, enslave.
Where else “yaavod” appearsfree
Free, at no cost.
Where else “chinam” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yiten” appearswages
What is given to the one who worked, in return for his labor.
Where else “foal” appears12but in the place where they have carried him into exile, there he will die, and this land he will not see again.”
13 · This verse (above)
14who says, “I will build for myself a house of great dimensions and spacious upper rooms, and cuts out for it its windows, paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.”
