### Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 21

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

Proverbs 23

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