Proverbs 22:20-28

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?

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