22:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. 22:2 The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all. 22:3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 22:4 The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life. 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. 22:8 Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. 22:9 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. 22:10 Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. 22:11 He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend. 22:12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor. 22:13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!" 22:14 The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it. 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. 22:17 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, 22:18 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. 22:19 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you. 22:20 Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, 22:21 to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you 22:22 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, 22:23 for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them. 22:24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 22:25 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. 22:26 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you 22:28 Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. 22:29 Do you see a man skillful in his work He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.