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Proverbs 21

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 22
#### 1 | A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.
#### 2 | The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.
#### 3 | A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
#### 4 | The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah [Is] riches, and honor, and life.
#### 5 | Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
#### 6 | Train up a child in the way he should go, And even 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 calamity; And the rod of his wrath 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 scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
#### 11 | He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
#### 12 | The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
#### 13 | The sluggard 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 Jehovah shall fall therein.
#### 15 | Foolishness is bound up 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 [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.
#### 17 | Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
#### 18 | For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
#### 19 | That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
#### 20 | Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
#### 21 | To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
#### 22 | Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
#### 23 | For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.
#### 24 | Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
#### 25 | Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.
#### 26 | Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts.
#### 27 | If thou hast not wherewith 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.

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