Compare: Proverbs 22

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A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

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The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

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The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

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The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

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Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

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

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

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He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

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A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

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Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

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He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

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The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

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The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

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The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

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Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

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Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise— apply your mind to my knowledge—

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for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.

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So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you.

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Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

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to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

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Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

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for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

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Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

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or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

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Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

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If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

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Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

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Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.