Proverbs - Chapter 22 - A Conservative Version
- A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.
- The rich and the poor meet together. LORD is the maker of them all.
- A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
- The reward of humility [and] the fear of LORD [is] riches and honor and life.
- Thorns [and] snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.
- Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
- The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
- He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
- He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
- Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.
- He who loves pureness of heart, [for] the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.
- The eyes of LORD preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.
- The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.
- The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.
- Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
- He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.
- Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.
- For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
- That thy trust may be in LORD, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
- Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge,
- to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee?
- Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.
- For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.
- Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,
- lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
- Be thou not one of those who strike hands, [or] of those who are sureties for debts.
- If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
- Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.