PROVERBS 22:17-29

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:

²⁷If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

²⁸Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

²⁹Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.