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Prouerbs 22

¹A Good name is rather to be chosen then great riches, and louing fauour rather then siluer & golde.

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

³A prudent man foreseeth the euill, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.

⁴By humilitie and the feare of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life.

⁵Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.

⁶Traine vp a childe in the way he should goe: and when he is olde, hee will not depart from it.

⁷The rich ruleth ouer the poore, and the borrower is seruant to the lender.

⁸Hee that soweth iniquitie, shall reape vanitie: and the rodde of his anger shall faile.

⁹Hee that hath a bountifull eye, shall bee blessed: for hee giueth of his bread to the poore.

¹⁰Cast out the scorner, and contention shall goe out; yea strife, and reproch shall cease.

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

¹²The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge, and he ouerthroweth the words of the transgressour.

¹³The slothfull man sayth, There is a lyon without, I shall be slaine in the streetes.

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

¹⁵Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child: but the rod of correction shal driue it farre from him.

¹⁶Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase his riches, and he that giueth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

¹⁷Bow downe thine eare, and heare the words of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.

¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.

¹⁹That thy trust may bee in the Lord, I haue made knowen to thee this day, euen to thee.

²⁰Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge:

²¹That I might make thee knowe the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answere the words of trueth to them that send vnto thee?

²²Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate.

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

²⁴Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe;

²⁵Lest thou learne his wayes, and get a snare to thy soule.

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

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

²⁸Remoue not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set.

²⁹Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse? hee shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before meane men.