### Noah Webster Bible

Proverbs 21

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| # Chapter 22
| A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
| The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
| A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
| By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.
| Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
| Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
| The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
| He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
| He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
| Cast out the scorner, and contention shall end; yes, strife and reproach shall cease.
| He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
| The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
| The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
| The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein.
| Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
| He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
| Bow down thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.
| For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
| That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
| Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
| 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 to thee?
| Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
| For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
| Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
| Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
| Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
| If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
| Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
| Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Proverbs 23

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