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22:1  A good reputation is rather to be chosen than great riches and good grace rather than silver and gold.
22:2  The rich and poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
22:3  A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and receive hurt.
22:4  Riches and honour and life are the remuneration of humility and of the fear of the LORD.
22:5  Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he that keeps his soul shall be far from them.
22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
22:7  The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
22:8  He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.
22:9  He that has a merciful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the destitute.
22:10  Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; strife and reproach shall cease.
22:11  He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
22:12  The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
22:13  The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
22:14  The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
22:15  Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
22:16  He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives to the rich shall surely come to want.
22:17  Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my wisdom.
22:18  For it is a delightful thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall be ordered together in thy lips.
22:19  That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
22:20  Have I not written unto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,
22:21  that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mightest answer the words of truth to those that send unto thee?
22:22  Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:
22:23  For the LORD will judge their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
22:24  Do not meddle with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
22:25  Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.
22:26  Be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are sureties for debts.
22:27  If thou hast nothing to pay, why should they take away thy bed from under thee?
22:28  Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
22:29  Seest thou a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.