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¹. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

². The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

³. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

⁴. By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

⁵. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep 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 ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸. He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

⁹. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

¹¹. He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

¹². The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

¹³. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

¹⁴. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

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

¹⁶. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

¹⁷. Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

¹⁸. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

¹⁹. That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

²⁰. Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

²¹. That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

²². Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

²³. For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

²⁴. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

²⁵. Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

²⁶. Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

²⁷. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

²⁸. Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

²⁹. Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.