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¹ GOOD name is better than great riches, and loving favor than silver and gold.

² The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them both.

³ A prudent man sees an evil man scourged and is greatly instructed by it; but fools pass by and suffer loss.

⁴ The result of humility is reverence for the LORD, and riches and honor and life.

⁵ Snares and traps are found on a crooked way; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁷ The rich shall be ruled by the poor, and the servant shall loan to his former lender.

⁸ He who sows iniquity shall reap deceit; and the staff of his anger shall be broken.

⁹ He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰ Destroy evil, cast out strife, do away with contention and reproach, lest they sit in the assembly and reproach all who are present.

¹¹ The LORD loves him who is pure in heart and is gracious to the lips of the kings friends.

¹² The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge and destroy the words of deceit.

¹³ When he is sent on an errand, the sluggard says, There is a lion on the road! and, Behold, there is murder in the streets!

¹⁴ The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry shall fall into it.

¹⁵ Foolishness moves the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹⁶ He who oppresses the poor adds to his evil; and he who gives to the rich, shall suffer a loss.

¹⁷ Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.¹⁸ For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips.¹⁹ That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made these things known to you this day, even to you.²⁰ Behold, this is the third time that I have written them to you,²¹ That I might make you know counsel and knowledge and peace and the words of truth; so that you could answer words of truth to him who might send to you.

²² Do not oppress the poor because he is poor; neither afflict the needy in the gate.²³ For the LORD will plead their cause and avenge the injustice which is done to them.

²⁴ Make no friendship with wrathful man; and with a man given to anger you shall not go,²⁵ Lest you learn his ways and find a stumbling block to your soul.

²⁶ Do not become a surety for a debt simply because you are ashamed to turn down those who ask you,²⁷ For if you have nothing to pay, they will take your bed from under you.

²⁸ Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

²⁹ When you see that a man is diligent in his work, he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.