Proverbs 22:17-27

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

¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.

¹⁹That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

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

²¹that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest 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 Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them.

²⁴Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;

²⁵lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

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

²⁷if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?