It's tough enough to understand and follow what the Bible says. Picking and choosing and spinning and twisting it to suit one's views is somewhere between silly and presumptuous. A creature deciding what the Creator really meant? Puh-leeeez! For those who "like" the verse, "You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits," three verses earlier God said, "(Y)ou must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit," (Exodus 23:6 and Exodus 23:3, New English Translation). Similar balances of passages teaching charity and mercy and passages teaching ceasing various sins (actions and of the heart) could be cited. The Bible is not "liberal" or "conservative" of itself; it's bigger, challenging our ideologies.
Are "faith" ("belief") and "works" a dichotomy? Separate? Or symbiotic and mutually reinforcing?