Proverbs 22

¹A name is chosen rather than much wealth, Than silver and than gold — good grace.

²Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all [is] Jehovah.

³The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

⁴The end of humility [is] the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.

⁵Thorns — snares [are] in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

⁶Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

⁷The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant [is] the borrower to the lender.

⁸Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

⁹The good of eye — he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰Cast out a scorner — and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

¹¹Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace [are] his lips, a king [is] his friend.

¹²The eyes of Jehovah have kept knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the treacherous.

¹³The slothful hath said, 'A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

¹⁴A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.