Proverbs 22

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¹ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.	¹ Fame is preferable to great wealth, favour, to silver and gold.
² The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.	² Rich and poor rub shoulders, Yahweh has made them both.
³ A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.	³ The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty.
⁴ By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.	⁴ The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh, and riches, honour and life.
⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.	⁵ Thorns and snares line the path of the wilful, whoever values life will stay at a distance.
⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.	⁶ Give a lad a training suitable to his character and, even when old, he wil not go back on it.
⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.	⁷ The rich lords it over the poor, the borrower is the lender's slave.
⁸ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.	⁸ Whoever sows injustice reaps disaster, and the rod of such anger wil disappear.
⁹ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.	⁹ A kindly eye wil earn a blessing, such a person shares out food with the poor.
¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.	¹⁰ Expel the mocker and strife goes too, law-suits and dislike die down.
¹¹ He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.	¹¹ Whoever loves the pure of heart and is gracious of speech has the king for a friend.
¹² The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.	¹² Yahweh's eyes protect knowledge, but he confounds deceitful speeches.
¹³ The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.	¹³ 'There is a lion outside,' says the idler, 'I shal be kil ed in the street!'
¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.	¹⁴ The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit, into it fal s the man whom Yahweh rebukes.
¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.	¹⁵ Fol y is anchored in the heart of a youth, the whip of instruction wil rid him of it.
¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.	¹⁶ Harsh treatment enriches the poor, but a gift impoverishes the rich.
¹⁷ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.	¹⁷ Give ear, listen to the sayings of the sages, and apply your heart to what I know,
¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.	¹⁸ for it wil be a delight to keep them deep within you to have them al ready on your lips.
¹⁹ That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.	¹⁹ So that your trust may be in Yahweh, it is you whom I wish to instruct today.
²⁰ Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,	²⁰ Have I not written for you thirty chapters of advice and knowledge,
²¹ That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?	²¹ to make you know the certainty of true sayings, so that you can return with sound answers to thosewho sent you?
²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:	²² Do not despoil the weak, for he is weak, and do not oppress the poor at the gate,
²³ For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.	²³ for Yahweh takes up their cause, and extorts the life of their extortioners.
²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:	²⁴ Do not make friends with one who gives way to anger, make no one quick-tempered a companion ofyours,
²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.	²⁵ for fear you learn such behaviour and in it find a snare for yourself.
²⁶ Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.	²⁶ Do not be one of those who go guarantor, who go surety for debts:
²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?	²⁷ if you have no means of paying your bed wil be taken from under you.
²⁸ Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.	²⁸ Do not displace the ancient boundary-stone set by your ancestors.
²⁹ Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.	²⁹ You see someone alert at his business? His aim wil be to serve kings; not for him the service of theobscure.

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