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A third illustration of the same principle is peaceableness:
Contend not with a man without a cause,
When he has inflicted no evil upon thee.
Instead of תָּרוּב, or as the Kerı̂ has amended it תָּרִיב, the abbreviated form תָּרֹב or תָּרֵב would be more correct after אַל; רוּב or רִיב (from רב, to be compact) means to fall upon one another, to come to hand-blows, to contend. Contending and quarrelling with a man, whoever he may be, without sufficient reason, ought to be abandoned; but there exists no such reason if he has done me no harm which I have to reproach him with. גָּמַל רָעָה with the accus. or dat. of the person signifies to bring evil upon any one, malum inferre, or also referre (Schultens), for גָּמַל (cogn. גָּמַר) signifies to execute, to complete, accomplish - both of the initiative and of the requital, both of the anticipative and of the recompensing action; here in the former of these senses.