1 Hatred, then, is evil, for it constantly pairs with lying and speaks against the truth. It makes small things great, turns light into darkness, calls the sweet bitter, teaches slander, kindles anger, and stirs up war and violence and all kinds of greed. It fills the heart with evil and devilish poison. 2 I tell you these things from experience, my children, so that you may drive out hatred, which comes from the devil, and hold fast to the love of God. 3 Righteousness casts out hatred, and humility destroys envy. 4 For the one who is just and humble is ashamed to do what is unjust, rebuked not by someone else but by his own heart, because the Lord looks on his intentions. 5 He does not speak against a holy man, because the fear of God overcomes hatred. 6 Fearing that he might offend the Lord, he will not wrong anyone, even in thought. 7 I learned these things at last, after I had repented over Joseph.⁠a 8 For true, godly repentance destroys ignorance, drives away the darkness, enlightens the eyes, gives knowledge to the soul, and leads the mind to salvation. 9 And the things it has not learned from anyone, it comes to know through repentance. 10 For God brought a disease of the liver upon me, and if the prayers of my father Jacob had not helped me, my spirit would almost certainly have departed. For by whatever things a person sins, by those same things he is also punished.⁠b 11 Since my liver had been set mercilessly against Joseph, in my liver too I suffered mercilessly, and I was judged for eleven months, the same length of time that I had been angry at Joseph.