Proverbs 22

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Fame is preferable to great wealth, favour, to silver and gold.	1 A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.
2 Rich and poor rub shoulders, Yahweh has made them both.	2 The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.
3 The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty.	3 The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.
4 The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh, and riches, honour and life.	4 The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.
5 Thorns and snares line the path of the wilful, whoever values life will stay at a distance.	5 Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul departeth far from them.
6 Give a lad a training suitable to his character and, even when old, he wil not go back on it.	6 It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old he will not depart from it.
7 The rich lords it over the poor, the borrower is the lender's slave.	7 The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.
8 Whoever sows injustice reaps disaster, and the rod of such anger wil disappear.	8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.
9 A kindly eye wil earn a blessing, such a person shares out food with the poor.	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.
10 Expel the mocker and strife goes too, law-suits and dislike die down.	10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
11 Whoever loves the pure of heart and is gracious of speech has the king for a friend.	11 He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.
12 Yahweh's eyes protect knowledge, but he confounds deceitful speeches.	12 The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.
13 'There is a lion outside,' says the idler, 'I shal be kil ed in the street!'	13 The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.
14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit, into it fal s the man whom Yahweh rebukes.	14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
15 Fol y is anchored in the heart of a youth, the whip of instruction wil rid him of it.	15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.
16 Harsh treatment enriches the poor, but a gift impoverishes the rich.	16 He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.
17 Give ear, listen to the sayings of the sages, and apply your heart to what I know,	17 Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine :
18 for it wil be a delight to keep them deep within you to have them al ready on your lips.	18 Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:
19 So that your trust may be in Yahweh, it is you whom I wish to instruct today.	19 That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day.
20 Have I not written for you thirty chapters of advice and knowledge,	20 Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge :
21 to make you know the certainty of true sayings, so that you can return with sound answers to thosewho sent you?	21 That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.
22 Do not despoil the weak, for he is weak, and do not oppress the poor at the gate,	22 Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:
23 for Yahweh takes up their cause, and extorts the life of their extortioners.	23 Because the Lord will judge his cause, and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.
24 Do not make friends with one who gives way to anger, make no one quick-tempered a companion ofyours,	24 Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:
25 for fear you learn such behaviour and in it find a snare for yourself.	25 Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.
26 Do not be one of those who go guarantor, who go surety for debts:	26 Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:
27 if you have no means of paying your bed wil be taken from under you.	27 For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there, that he should take the covering from thy bed?
28 Do not displace the ancient boundary-stone set by your ancestors.	28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.
29 You see someone alert at his business? His aim wil be to serve kings; not for him the service of theobscure.	29 Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.