Proverbs 22 · Clearspring

A Good Name

¹A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.+ ²The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.+ ³A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.+ ⁴The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah [Is] riches, and honor, and life.+ ⁵Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.+ ⁶Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.+ ⁷The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.+ ⁸He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.+ ⁹He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.+ ¹⁰Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.+ ¹¹He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.+ ¹²The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.+ ¹³The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.+ ¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.+ ¹⁵Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.+ ¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.+

Thirty Sayings of the Wise

Saying 1

¹⁷Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.+ ¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.+ ¹⁹That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.+ ²⁰Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,+ ²¹To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?+

Saying 2

²²Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:+ ²³For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.+

Saying 3

²⁴Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:+ ²⁵Lest thou learn his ways, And get a snare to thy soul.+

Saying 4

²⁶Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts.+ ²⁷If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?+

Saying 5

²⁸Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.+

Saying 6

²⁹Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.+