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| [1]A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold -- good grace. |
[1]GOOD name is better than great riches, and loving favor than silver and gold |
| [2]Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah. |
[2]The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them both |
| [3]The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished. |
[3]A prudent man sees an evil man scourged and is greatly instructed by it; but fools pass by and suffer loss |
| [4]The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life. |
[4]The result of humility is reverence for the LORD, and riches and honor and life |
| [5]Thorns -- snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them. |
[5]Snares and traps are found on a crooked way; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them |
| [6]Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it. |
[6]Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it |
| [7]The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender. |
[7]The rich shall be ruled by the poor, and the servant shall loan to his former lender |
| [8]Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. |
[8]He who sows iniquity shall reap deceit; and the staff of his anger shall be broken |
| [9]The good of eye -- he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor. |
[9]He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor |
| [10]Cast out a scorner -- and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease. |
[10]Destroy evil, cast out strife, do away with contention and reproach, lest they sit in the assembly and reproach all who are present |
| [11]Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend. |
[11]The LORD loves him who is pure in heart and is gracious to the lips of the king's friends |
| [12]The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous. |
[12]The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge and destroy the words of deceit |
| [13]The slothful hath said, `A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.' |
[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 |
| [14]A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there. |
[14]The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry shall fall into it |
| [15]Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him. |
[15]Foolishness moves the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him |
| [16]He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want. |
[16]He who oppresses the poor adds to his evil; and he who gives to the rich, shall suffer a loss |
| [17]Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, |
[17]Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge. |
| [18]For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. |
[18]For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips. |
| [19]That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou. |
[19]That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made these things known to you this day, even to you. |
| [20]Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge? |
[20]Behold, this is the third time that I have written them to you, |
| [21]To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee. |
[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 |
| [22]Rob not the poor because he [is] poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate. |
[22]Do not oppress the poor because he is poor; neither afflict the needy in the gate. |
| [23]For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers. |
[23]For the LORD will plead their cause and avenge the injustice which is done to them |
| [24]Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in, |
[24]Make no friendship with wrathful man; and with a man given to anger you shall not go, |
| [25]Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul. |
[25]Lest you learn his ways and find a stumbling block to your soul |
| [26]Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties [for] burdens. |
[26]Do not become a surety for a debt simply because you are ashamed to turn down those who ask you, |
| [27]If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee? |
[27]For if you have nothing to pay, they will take your bed from under you |
| [28]Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made. |
[28]Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set |
| [29]Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men! |
[29]When you see that a man is diligent in his work, he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men |