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Proverbs - ch 22 v 1 - 20
- A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
- The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
- A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
- The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
- Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
- Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
- He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
- He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
- Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
- He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king's friend.
- The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
- The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
- The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
- Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
- Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
- For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
- That your trust may be in Yahweh, I teach you today, even you.
- Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
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