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| [1]GOOD name is better than great riches, and loving favor than silver and gold |
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| [2]The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them both |
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| [3]A prudent man sees an evil man scourged and is greatly instructed by it; but fools pass by and suffer loss |
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| [4]The result of humility is reverence for the LORD, and riches and honor and life |
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| [5]Snares and traps are found on a crooked way; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them |
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| [6]Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it |
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| [7]The rich shall be ruled by the poor, and the servant shall loan to his former lender |
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| [8]He who sows iniquity shall reap deceit; and the staff of his anger shall be broken |
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| [9]He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor |
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| [10]Destroy evil, cast out strife, do away with contention and reproach, lest they sit in the assembly and reproach all who are present |
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| [11]The LORD loves him who is pure in heart and is gracious to the lips of the king's friends |
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| [12]The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge and destroy the words of deceit |
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| [13]When he is sent on an errand, the sluggard says, There is a lion on the road! and, Behold, there is murder in the streets |
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| [14]The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry shall fall into it |
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| [15]Foolishness moves the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him |
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| [16]He who oppresses the poor adds to his evil; and he who gives to the rich, shall suffer a loss |
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| [17]Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge. |
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| [18]For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips. |
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| [19]That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made these things known to you this day, even to you. |
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| [20]Behold, this is the third time that I have written them to you, |
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| [21]That I might make you know counsel and knowledge and peace and the words of truth; so that you could answer words of truth to him who might send to you |
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| [22]Do not oppress the poor because he is poor; neither afflict the needy in the gate. |
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| [23]For the LORD will plead their cause and avenge the injustice which is done to them |
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| [24]Make no friendship with wrathful man; and with a man given to anger you shall not go, |
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| [25]Lest you learn his ways and find a stumbling block to your soul |
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| [26]Do not become a surety for a debt simply because you are ashamed to turn down those who ask you, |
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| [27]For if you have nothing to pay, they will take your bed from under you |
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| [28]Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set |
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| [29]When you see that a man is diligent in his work, he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men |
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