Proverbs 22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

KJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. ² The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. ³ A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. ⁴ By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life. ⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them. ⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ⁷ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸ He that sows iniquity shall reap trouble: and the rod of his anger shall fail. ⁹ He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor. ¹⁰ Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. ¹¹ He that loves pureness of heart and has grace on his lips, the king shall be his friend. ¹² The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor. ¹³ The slothful man says, There is a lion outside, I shall be slain in the streets. ¹⁴ The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. ¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. ¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty. ¹⁷ Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart unto my knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted on your lips. ¹⁹ That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you. ²⁰ Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge, ²¹ That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send unto you? ²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: ²³ For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. ²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go: ²⁵ Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul. ²⁶ Be not one of them that gives pledges, or of them that become surety for debts. ²⁷ If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? ²⁸ Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set. ²⁹ See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.