PROVERBS 22:13-26

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

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

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

¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, and he that giveth to the rich, cometh only to want.

¹⁷Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

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

¹⁹That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

²⁰Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;

²¹To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

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

²³For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.

²⁴Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

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

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