Geneva1599 - Proverbs - 22

22:1  A good name is to be chosen aboue great riches, and louing fauour is aboue siluer and aboue golde.

22:2  The rich and poore meete together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

22:3  A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.

22:4  The rewarde of humilitie, and the feare of God is riches, and glory, and life.

22:5  Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that regardeth his soule, will depart farre from them.

22:6  Teache a childe in the trade of his way, and when he is olde, he shall not depart from it.

22:7  The rich ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruant to the man that lendeth.

22:8  He that soweth iniquitie, shall reape affliction, and the rodde of his anger shall faile.

22:9  He that hath a good eye, he shalbe blessed: for he giueth of his bread vnto the poore.

22:10  Cast out the scorner, and strife shall go out: so contention and reproche shall cease.

22:11  Hee that loueth purenesse of heart for the grace of his lippes, the King shalbe his friend.

22:12  The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: but hee ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressour.

22:13  The slouthfull man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete.

22:14  The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

22:15  Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.

22:16  Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

22:17  Incline thine eare, and heare the wordes of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.

22:18  For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

22:19  That thy confidence may be in the Lord, I haue shewed thee this day: thou therefore take heede.

22:20  Haue not I written vnto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,

22:21  That I might shewe thee the assurance of the wordes of trueth to answere the wordes of trueth to them that sende to thee?

22:22  Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.

22:23  For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.

22:24  Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,

22:25  Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.

22:26  Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.

22:27  If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?

22:28  Thou shalt not remooue the ancient bounds which thy fathers haue made.

22:29  Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.