Chapter 22

  A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.  

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  The rich and the 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 suffer for it.  

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  The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah [Is] riches, and honor, and life.  

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  Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.  

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  Train up a child in the way he should go, And even 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 iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.  

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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 scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.  

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  He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.  

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  The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.  

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  The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.  

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  The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.  

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  Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.  

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  He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] 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, If they be established together upon thy lips.  

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  That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.  

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  Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,  

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  To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?  

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  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 of life those that despoil them.  

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  Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:  

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  Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.  

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  Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts.  

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  If thou hast not wherewith 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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  Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.  

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