| 1 ¶ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving1 favour rather than silver and gold.
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| 2 ¶ The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
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| 3 ¶ A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
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| 4 ¶ By2 humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
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| 5 ¶ Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
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| 6 ¶ Train43 up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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| 7 ¶ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.5
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| 8 ¶ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod6 of his anger shall fail.
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| 9 ¶ He that7 hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
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| 10 ¶ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
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| 11 ¶ He that loveth pureness of heart, for8 the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
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| 12 ¶ The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words9 of the transgressor.
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| 13 ¶ The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
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| 14 ¶ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
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| 15 ¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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| 16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
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| 17 ¶ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
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| 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within10 thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
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| 19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even11 to thee.
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| 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
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| 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them12 that send unto thee?
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| 22 ¶ Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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| 23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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| 24 ¶ Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
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| 25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
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| 26 ¶ Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
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| 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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| 28 ¶ Remove not the ancient landmark,13 which thy fathers have set.
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| 29 ¶ Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean14 men.
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