PROVERBS 22:2-21

²The rich and the poor meet together: the LORD 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 the LORD is riches, and honour, and life.

⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: 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 scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and ignominy shall cease.

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

¹²The eyes of the LORD 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 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?