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| | Pro 22:1 | A `good' name is rather to be chosen than great riches, `And' loving favor rather than silver and gold.
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| | Pro 22:2 | The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.
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| | Pro 22:3 | A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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| | Pro 22:4 | The reward of humility `and' the fear of Jehovah `Is' riches, and honor, and life.
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| | Pro 22:5 | Thorns `and' snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
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| | Pro 22:6 | Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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| | Pro 22:7 | The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.
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| | Pro 22:8 | He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
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| | Pro 22:9 | He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.
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| | Pro 22:10 | Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
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| | Pro 22:11 | He that loveth pureness of heart, `For' the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
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| | Pro 22:12 | The eyes of Jehovah preserve `him that hath' knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
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| | Pro 22:13 | The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.
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| | Pro 22:14 | The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
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| | Pro 22:15 | Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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| | Pro 22:16 | He that oppresseth the poor to increase his `gain', `And' he that giveth to the rich, `shall come' only to want.
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| | Pro 22:17 | Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
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| | Pro 22:18 | For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
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| | Pro 22:19 | That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made `them' known to thee this day, even to thee.
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| | Pro 22:20 | Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
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| | Pro 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?
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| | Pro 22:22 | Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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| | Pro 22:23 | For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.
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| | Pro 22:24 | Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
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| | Pro 22:25 | Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.
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| | Pro 22:26 | Be thou not one of them that strike hands, `Or' of them that are sureties for debts.
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| | Pro 22:27 | If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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| | Pro 22:28 | Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.
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| | Pro 22:29 | Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.
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