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;
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