Proverbs 22:1
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor meet together. Jehovah is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Proverbs 22:4
The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:7
The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:8
He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
Proverbs 22:9
He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.
Proverbs 22:11
He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.
Proverbs 22:12
The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall in it.
Proverbs 22:15
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 22:16
He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.
Proverbs 22:17
Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.
Proverbs 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
Proverbs 22:19
That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
Proverbs 22:20
Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs 22:21
to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee?
Proverbs 22:22
Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.
Proverbs 22:23
For Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
Proverbs 22:24
Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,
Proverbs 22:25
lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Proverbs 22:26
Be thou not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.
Proverbs 22:27
If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Proverbs 22:29
See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.