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PROV 22:1  A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.

PROV 22:2  The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.

PROV 22:3  The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

PROV 22:4  The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

PROV 22:5  Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul departeth far from them.

PROV 22:6  It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart from it.

PROV 22:7  The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.

PROV 22:8  He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

PROV 22:9  He that is inclined to mercy shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.

PROV 22:10  Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

PROV 22:11  He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

PROV 22:12  The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.

PROV 22:13  The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

PROV 22:14  The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

PROV 22:15  Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

PROV 22:16  He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

PROV 22:17  Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

PROV 22:18  Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

PROV 22:19  That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day.

PROV 22:20  Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge:

PROV 22:21  That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.

PROV 22:22  Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

PROV 22:23  Because the Lord will judge his cause, and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

PROV 22:24  Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

PROV 22:25  Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.

PROV 22:26  Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

PROV 22:27  For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed?

PROV 22:28  Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

PROV 22:29  Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.

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