Proverbs 22:8-19

⁸If you plant corn or rice, corn or rice will grow; similarly, if you act unjustly, you will have disasters MET; and if you try to harm/oppress people because you are angry with them, you will not be able to harm them.

⁹God will bless those who are generous IDM, those who give some of their food to poor people.

¹⁰If you get rid of those who make fun of everything that is good, there will no more arguing or quarreling or insulting other people.

¹¹If you always act sincerely IDM and always speak kindly, the king will be your friend.

¹²Yahweh SYN ◄watches over/takes care of► those who have good understanding/sense, but he ruins the plans/affairs of those who always try to deceive others.

¹³Lazy people remain in their houses; they say, “A lion might attack me if I go out into the street to go to work!”

¹⁴What ◄wives who commit adultery/immoral women► say to men MTY is like a deep pit MET into which those men fall; those with whom Yahweh is angry will fall into that pit.

¹⁵Children SYN naturally do things that are foolish, but if you punish/spank them PRS, they will ◄stop doing foolish things/learn to behave as they should►.

¹⁶Those who oppress poor people in order to become rich, and those who give a bribe to rich people in order that the rich people will do a favor for them, will just lose their money.

¹⁷Now listen MTY to what wise people have said; think carefully about what I am teaching you.

¹⁸It will be good to ◄keep these things in your minds/always remember them►, because if you do that, you will be able to quote/recite them to others.

¹⁹I want you to trust in Yahweh, and that is the reason that I am telling them to you, now.