Proverbs 22:1-13

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

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

³A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

⁴The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah Is riches, and honor, and life.

⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

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

⁷The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

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

¹⁰Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

¹¹He that loveth pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

¹²The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.

¹³The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.