📖 Proverbs 22
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A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth, good favor more than silver or gold.
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The rich and the poor are met together; the LORD is the Creator of them both.
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A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.
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The reward for humility and fearing the LORD is riches and honor and life.
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Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
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Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
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The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.
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A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.
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Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.
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The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious– the king will be his friend.
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The eyes of the LORD watched over a cause, and subverted the words of the treacherous person.
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The sluggard has said,“There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”
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The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.
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The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
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The Sayings of the Wise Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my instruction.
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For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
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So that your confidence may be in the LORD, I hereby make them known to you today– even you.
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Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,
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to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?
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Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,
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for the LORD will plead their case and will rob the life those who are robbing them.
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Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,
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lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
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Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
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If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
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Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.
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You have seen a person skilled in his work– he will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.