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¹ More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.

² The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.

³ A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.

⁴ The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.

⁵ Thorns and snares, are in the way of the perverse, - he that guardeth his soul, shall be far from them.

⁶ Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.

⁷ The rich, over the poor, beareth rule, - and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.

⁸ He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.

⁹ A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed, - because he hath given of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰ Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.

¹¹ Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!

¹² The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.

¹³ Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.

¹⁴ A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.

¹⁵ Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;¹⁸ For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.¹⁹ That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee to-day, even to thee.²⁰ Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:²¹ To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.

²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.

²⁴ Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.

²⁶ Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?

²⁸ Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father's made.

²⁹ Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.