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Proverbs 22 📜 📕 ↷
A Good Name
1 Better is a good name, than much riches: above silver and gold, good grace.📜💬📚
2 The rich and poor have met one another: our Lord is the maker of both.📜💬📚
3 The subtle saw evil, and hid himself: the innocent passed by, and was afflicted with damage.📜💬📚
4 The end of modesty the fear of our Lord, riches and glory and life.📜💬📚
5 Armour and swords in the way of the perverse: but the keeper of his own soul departeth far from them.📜💬📚
6 It is a proverb: A youngman according to his way, when he is old will not depart from it.📜💬📚
7 The richman ruleth over the poor: and he that borroweth is the servant of him that lendeth.📜💬📚
8 He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his wrath, he shall be consumed.📜💬📚
9 He that is prone to mercy shall be blessed: for of his breads he hath given to the poor. He that giveth gifts shall purchase victory and honour: but he that receiveth taketh away the soul of the giver.📜💬📚
10 Cast out the scorner, and brawling shall go forth with him, and cause shall cease and contumelies.📜💬📚
11 He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king his friend.📜💬📚
12 The eyes of our Lord keep knowledge: and the words of the just are supplanted.📜💬📚
13 The slothful saith: A lion is without, in the midst of the streets I am to be slain.📜💬📚
14 A deep pit the mouth of a strange woman: he with whom our Lord is angry, shall fall into it.📜💬📚
15 Folly is tied together in the heart of a child, and the rod of discipline shall drive it away.📜💬📚
16 He that doth calumniate the poor to increase his riches, himself shall give to a richer, and shall be in need.📜💬📚
Thirty Sayings of the Wise: Saying 1
17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of wisemen: and set thy heart to my doctrine:📜💬📚
18 which shall be beautiful for thee, when thou shalt keep it in thy belly, and it shall flow in thy lips.📜💬📚
19 That thy confidence may be in our Lord, wherefore I have shewed also it to thee this day.📜💬📚
20 Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways: in cogitations and knowledge:📜💬📚
21 that I might shew thee the stability, and the words of truth, out of these to answer them that sent thee.📜💬📚
Saying 2
22 Do not violence to the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the needy in the gate:📜💬📚
23 because our Lord will judge his cause, and will pierce them, that have pierced his soul.📜💬📚
Saying 3
24 Be not friend to an angry man, nor walk with a furious man:📜💬📚
25 lest perhaps thou learn his paths, and take scandal to thy soul.📜💬📚
Saying 4
26 Be not with them that stick down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:📜💬📚
27 for if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?📜💬📚
Saying 5
28 Transgress not the ancient bounds, which thy fathers have put.📜💬📚
Saying 6
29 Hast thou seen a man quick in his work? He shall stand before kings, neither shall he be before the unnoble.📜💬📚
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