ACV - Proverbs - 22

22:1  A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.

22:2  The rich and the poor meet together. Jehovah is the maker of them all.

22:3  A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

22:4  The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah is riches and honor and life.

22:5  Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

22:7  The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

22:8  He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

22:9  He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

22:10  Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.

22:11  He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.

22:12  The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

22:13  The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.

22:14  The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall in it.

22:15  Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

22:16  He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

22:17  Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.

22:18  For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.

22:19  That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

22:20  Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge,

22:21  to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee?

22:22  Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

22:23  For Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

22:24  Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,

22:25  lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

22:26  Be thou not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

22:27  If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

22:28  Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

22:29  See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.