RSV Proverbs 22 Chapter
22:1
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
22:2
The rich and the poor meet together;the LORD is the maker of them all.
22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
22:4
The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;he who guards himself will keep far from them.
22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
22:7
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
22:8
He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
22:9
He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
22:10
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
22:11
He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
22:12
The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
22:13
The sluggard says, 'There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!'
22:14
The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit;he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
22:16
He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.
22:17
Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;
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for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
22:19
That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
22:20
Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
22:21
to show you what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
22:22
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
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for the LORD will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.
22:24
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
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lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
22:26
Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.
22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
22:29
Do you see a man skilful in his work? he will stand before kings;he will not stand before obscure men.