📖 Proverbs 22
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A good name is more to be desired then great riches: and louing fauour is better then siluer and golde.
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The riche and poore meete together: the Lorde is the maker of them all.
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A wyse man seeth the plague, and hydeth hym selfe: but the foolishe go on still, and are punished.
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By humilitie and the feare of the Lorde, commeth riches, honour, and life.
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Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that doth kepe his soule, wyll flee farre from them.
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Teache a chylde what way he should go: for he shall not leaue it when he is olde.
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The ryche ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruaunt to the lender.
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He that soweth wickednes, shal reape wickednes: and the rodde of his anger shall fayle.
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He that hath a bountifull eye, shalbe blessed: for he geueth of his bread to the poore.
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Cast out the scorneful man, and so shal strife go out with hym: yea variaunce and sclaunder shall ceasse.
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Who so loueth cleannes of heart, for the grace of his lippes the kyng shalbe his frende.
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The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: and he ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressours.
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The slouthfull body saith there is a Lion without: I might be slaine in the streate.
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The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall.
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Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.
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Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.
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Bowe downe thyne eare, and heare the wordes of the wise: applie thy mind vnto my doctrine:
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For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:
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That thou mayest put thy trust in the Lorde, I haue shewed thee this day the thing that thou knowest.
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Haue not I warned thee very oft with counsayle and learning,
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That I might make thee knowe the trueth, that thou with the veritie mightest aunswere them that sende vnto thee?
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Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement:
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For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.
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Make no frendship with an angrye wylfull man, and walke not with the furious:
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Lest thou learne his wayes, and receaue hurt to thy soule.
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Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes:
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For if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from vnder thee.
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Thou shalt not remoue the auncient lande marke, whiche thy fore elders haue set.
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Seest thou not that they which be diligent in their businesse stande before kinges, & not among the simple people?