This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text.
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Refuse no kindness to those who have a right to it, if it is in your power to perform it. 28Do not say to your neighbor, 'Go away! Come another time! I will give it you tomorrow,' if you can do it now.
29Do not plot harm against your neighbor who is living unsuspecting beside you. 30Do not pick a groundless quarrel with anyone who has done you no harm.
31Do not envy the man of violence, never model your conduct on his; 32for the willful wrong-doer is abhorrent to Yahweh, who confides only in the honest. 33Yahweh's curse lies on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the upright.
34He mocks those who mock, but accords his favor to the humble.
35Glory is the portion of the wise, all that fools inherit is contempt.
kindness = טוֹב = ṭôḇ Blue Letter Bible good, pleasant, agreeable; excellent; rich, valuable in estimation; appropriate, becoming; happy, prosperous, kind, benign; right (ethical); welfare, prosperity, happiness; good things (collective)
good, benefit; moral good; blessing of good things
plot = חָרַשׁ = ḥāraš Blue Letter Bible to cut in, plough, engrave; devise; to be silent, be dumb, be speechless, be deaf; keep quiet; to remain silent
evil = רַע = raʿ Blue Letter Bible bad, evil, disagreeable, malignant, unpleasant, giving pain, unhappiness, misery, displeasing; sad, unhappy; hurtful; unkind, vicious in disposition, wicked (ethically)
groundless = חִנָּם = ḥinnām Blue Letter Bible freely, gratis, gratuitously; for nothing, without cause; for no purpose, in vain; undeservedly
quarrel = רִיב = rîḇ Blue Letter Bible to strive, contend; to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue
to make complaint; to quarrel; to contend against
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