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

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

    ^22:3 A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer for it.

    ^22:4 The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah is riches and honor and life.

    ^22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul will be far from them.

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

    ^22:7 The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender.

    ^22:8 He who sows unrighteousness will reap calamity and the rod of his wrath will fail.

    ^22:9 He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, because he gives of his bread to the poor.

    ^22:10 Cast out the scoffer and contention will go out, yes, strife and reproach will cease.

    ^22:11 He who loves pureness of heart, for the favor of his lips, the king will be his friend.

    ^22:12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

    ^22:13 The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I will be slain in the streets.

    ^22:14 The mouth of a strange women is a deep pit. He who is indignant of Jehovah will fall in it.

    ^22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction will drive it far from him.

    ^22:16 He who oppresses a poor man to his increase and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

    ^22:17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise and apply your heart to my knowledge. ^22:18 Because it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if they are established together upon your lips.

    ^22:19 That your trust may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to you this day, even to you.

    ^22:20 Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, ^22:21 to make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may carry back words of truth to those who send you?

    ^22:22 Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ^22:23 Because Jehovah will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.

    ^22:24 Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger and you will not go with a wrathful man, ^22:25 lest you learn this ways and get a snare for your soul.

    ^22:26 Be not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts. ^22:27 If you have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

    ^22:28 Do not move the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.

    ^22:29 See a man diligent in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before insignificant men.