📖 Proverbs 22
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A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
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The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
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A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
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Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
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He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
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He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
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Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
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He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.
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The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
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The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
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The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
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For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
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That your trust may be in Yahweh, I teach you today, even you.
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Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
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To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
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Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;
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for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
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Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:
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lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.
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Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.
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If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
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Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
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Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won't serve obscure men.