The Proverbs

22: 1A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,

 And loving favor rather than silver and gold.

 ^22:2The rich and the poor meet together:

 Jehovah is the maker of them all.

 ^22:3A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself;

 But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

 ^22:4The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah

 Is riches, and honor, and life.

 ^22:5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse:

 He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

 ^22:6Train up a child in the way he should go,

 And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

 ^22:7The rich ruleth over the poor;

 And the borrower is servant to the lender.

 ^22:8He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity;

 And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

 ^22:9He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed;

 For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

 ^22:10Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out;

 Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

 ^22:11He that loveth pureness of heart,

 For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

 ^22:12The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge;

 But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.

 ^22:13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without:

 I shall be slain in the streets.

 ^22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit:

 He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

 ^22:15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;

 But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

 ^22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain,

 And he that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.
 
 

 ^22:17Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,

 And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.

 ^22:18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee,

 If they be established together upon thy lips.

 ^22:19That thy trust may be in Jehovah,

 I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

 ^22:20Have not I written unto thee excellent things

 Of counsels and knowledge,

 ^22:21To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth,

 That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

 ^22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor;

 Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

 ^22:23For Jehovah will plead their cause,

 And despoil of life those that despoil them.

 ^22:24Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger;

 And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

 ^22:25Lest thou learn this ways,

 And get a snare to thy soul.

 ^22:26Be thou not one of them that strike hands,

 Or of them that are sureties for debts.

 ^22:27If thou hast not wherewith to pay,

 Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

 ^22:28Remove not the ancient landmark,

 Which thy fathers have set.

 ^22:29Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings;

 He shall not stand before mean men.