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| 22:1 |
 good name is rather to be chosen then great riches, and louing fauour rather then siluer & golde. |
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| 22:2 |
The rich and poore meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. |
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| 22:3 |
A prudent man foreseeth the euill, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished. |
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| 22:4 |
By humilitie and the feare of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. |
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| 22:5 |
Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them. |
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| 22:6 |
Traine vp a childe in the way he should goe: and when he is olde, hee will not depart from it. |
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| 22:7 |
The rich ruleth ouer the poore, and the borrower is seruant to the lender. |
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| 22:8 |
Hee that soweth iniquitie, shall reape vanitie: and the rodde of his anger shall faile. |
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| 22:9 |
Hee that hath a bountifull eye, shall bee blessed: for hee giueth of his bread to the poore. |
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| 22:10 |
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall goe out; yea strife, and reproch shall cease. |
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| 22:11 |
He that loueth purenesse of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. |
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| 22:12 |
The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge, and he ouerthroweth the words of the transgressour. |
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| 22:13 |
The slothfull man sayth, There is a lyon without, I shall be slaine in the streetes. |
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| 22:14 |
The mouth of strange women is a deepe pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. |
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| 22:15 |
Foolishnesse is bound in the heart of a child: but the rod of correction shal driue it farre from him. |
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| 22:16 |
Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase his riches, and he that giueth to the rich, shall surely come to want. |
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| 22:17 |
Bow downe thine eare, and heare the words of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge. |
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| 22:18 |
For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes. |
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| 22:19 |
That thy trust may bee in the Lord, I haue made knowen to thee this day, euen to thee. |
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| 22:20 |
Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge: |
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| 22:21 |
That I might make thee knowe the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answere the words of trueth to them that send vnto thee? |
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| 22:22 |
Rob not the poore because he is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in the gate. |
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| 22:23 |
For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoile the soule of those that spoiled them. |
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| 22:24 |
Make no friendship with an angrie man: and with a furious man thou shalt not goe; |
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| 22:25 |
Lest thou learne his wayes, and get a snare to thy soule. |
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| 22:26 |
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. |
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| 22:27 |
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from vnder thee? |
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| 22:28 |
Remoue not the ancient land marke, which thy fathers haue set. |
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| 22:29 |
Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse? hee shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before meane men. |
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