| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise—apply your mind to my knowledge— |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men. |
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