| Chapter 22 |
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A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches; loving favour rather than silver and gold. --
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The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all. --
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A prudent [man] seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. --
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The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life. --
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Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them. --
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Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it. --
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The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender. --
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He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end. --
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He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor. --
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Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease. --
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He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend. --
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The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful. --
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The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets! --
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The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein. --
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Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. --
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He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, [bringeth] only to want. --
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Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge. --
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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips. --
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That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee. --
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Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge, --
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that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee? --
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22 |
Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; --
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for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them. --
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Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man; --
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lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul. --
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Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts: --
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if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? --
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Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. --
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Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean. --
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