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| Proverbs 22: (YLT) |
| 1) A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace. |
| 2) Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah. |
| 3) The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished. |
| 4) The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life. |
| 5) Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. |
| 6) Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it. |
| 7) The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender. |
| 8) Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. |
| 9) The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor. |
| 10) Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease. |
| 11) Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend. |
| 12) The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous. |
| 13) The slothful hath said, 'A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.' |
| 14) A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there. |
| 15) Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him. |
| 16) He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want. |
| 17) Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, |
| 18) For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. |
| 19) That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. |
| 20) Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? |
| 21) To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee. |
| 22) Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. |
| 23) For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers. |
| 24) Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, |
| 25) Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul. |
| 26) Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens. |
| 27) If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee? |
| 28) Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made. |
| 29) Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men! |