Proverbs 22:11-21

¹¹Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.

¹²The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.

¹³The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

¹⁴A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

¹⁶He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich — only to want.

¹⁷Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,

¹⁸For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.

¹⁹That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.

²⁰Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

²¹To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.