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| 22:1 |
A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace.
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| 22:2 |
Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah.
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| 22:3 |
The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.
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| 22:4 |
The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
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| 22:5 |
Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.
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| 22:6 |
Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.
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| 22:7 |
The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender.
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| 22:8 |
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
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| 22:9 |
The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.
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| 22:10 |
Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.
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| 22:11 |
Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend.
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| 22:12 |
The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.
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| 22:13 |
The slothful hath said, `A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
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| 22:14 |
A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
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| 22:15 |
Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
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| 22:16 |
He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.
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| 22:17 |
Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,
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| 22:18 |
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
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| 22:19 |
That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.
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| 22:20 |
Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?
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| 22:21 |
To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.
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| 22:22 |
Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.
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| 22:23 |
For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.
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| 22:24 |
Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,
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| 22:25 |
Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.
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| 22:26 |
Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens.
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| 22:27 |
If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?
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| 22:28 |
Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.
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| 22:29 |
Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!
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