RLT - Proverbs - 22

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

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

22:3  A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

22:4  By humility and the fear of Yhwh are riches, and honour, and life.

22:5  Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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

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

22:8  He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

22:9  He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

22:10  Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

22:11  He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

22:12  The eyes of Yhwh preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

22:13  The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

22:14  The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of Yhwh shall fall therein.

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

22:16  He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

22:17  Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

22:18  For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

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

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

22:21  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 unto thee?

22:22  Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

22:23  For Yhwh will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

22:24  Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

22:25  Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

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

22:27  If thou hast nothing 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  Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.