Proverbs 22:1 ASV: 


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Proverbs 22:1: 
A `good' name is rather to be chosen than great riches, `And' loving favor rather than silver and gold.

Proverbs 22:2: 
The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.

Proverbs 22:3: 
A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Proverbs 22:4: 
The reward of humility `and' the fear of Jehovah `Is' riches, and honor, and life.

Proverbs 22:5: 
Thorns `and' snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

Proverbs 22:6: 
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:7: 
The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

Proverbs 22:8: 
He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

Proverbs 22:9: 
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Proverbs 22:10: 
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

Proverbs 22:11: 
He that loveth pureness of heart, `For' the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.

Proverbs 22:12: 
The eyes of Jehovah preserve `him that hath' knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.

Proverbs 22:13: 
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.

Proverbs 22:14: 
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

Proverbs 22:15: 
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 22:16: 
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his `gain', `And' he that giveth to the rich, `shall come' only to want.

Proverbs 22:17: 
Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.

Proverbs 22:18: 
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

Proverbs 22:19: 
That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made `them' known to thee this day, even to thee.

Proverbs 22:20: 
Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

Proverbs 22:21: 
To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

Proverbs 22:22: 
Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Proverbs 22:23: 
For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.

Proverbs 22:24: 
Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

Proverbs 22:25: 
Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.

Proverbs 22:26: 
Be thou not one of them that strike hands, `Or' of them that are sureties for debts.

Proverbs 22:27: 
If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Proverbs 22:28: 
Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 22:29: 
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.