Proverbes 22.24
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¹ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold.
² The rich and the poor meet together;
the Lord is the Maker of them all.
³ The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
⁴ The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
is riches and honor and life.
⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;
whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.
⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
⁷ The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
⁸ Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity,
and the rod of his fury will fail.
⁹ Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed,
for he shares his bread with the poor.
¹⁰ Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,
and quarreling and abuse will cease.
¹¹ He who loves purity of heart,
and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
¹² The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
¹³ The sluggard says, There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!
¹⁴ The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit;
he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
¹⁶ Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

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¹⁷ Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise,
and apply your heart to my knowledge,
¹⁸ for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,
if all of them are ready on your lips.
¹⁹ That your trust may be in the Lord,
I have made them known to you today, even to you.
²⁰ Have I not written for you thirty sayings
of counsel and knowledge,
²¹ to make you know what is right and true,
that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor,
or crush the afflicted at the gate,
²³ for the Lord will plead their cause
and rob of life those who rob them.
²⁴ Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
nor go with a wrathful man,
²⁵ lest you learn his ways
and entangle yourself in a snare.
²⁶ Be not one of those who give pledges,
who put up security for debts.
²⁷ If you have nothing with which to pay,
why should your bed be taken from under you?
²⁸ Do not move the ancient landmark
that your fathers have set.
²⁹ Do you see a man skillful in his work?
He will stand before kings;
he will not stand before obscure men.