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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A good name is to be chosen over great wealth; favor is better than silver and gold. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Rich and poor have this in common: the LORD makes them all. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A sensible person sees danger and takes cover, but the inexperienced keep going and are punished. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Humility, the fear of the LORD, results in wealth, honor, and life. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5There are thorns and snares on the way of the crooked; the one who guards himself stays far from them. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Start a youth out on his way; even when he grows 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 a slave to the lender. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The one 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 person will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too; then quarreling and dishonor will cease. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The one who loves a pure heart and gracious lips--the king is his friend. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The LORD's eyes keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The slacker says, "There's a lion outside! I'll be killed in the public square!" |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the LORD will fall into it. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Foolishness is bound to the heart of a youth; a rod of discipline will separate it from him. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich--both lead only to poverty. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Listen closely, pay attention to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For it is pleasing if you keep them within you and if they are constantly on your lips. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I have instructed you today--even you--so that your confidence may be in the LORD. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Haven't I written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge, |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21in order to teach you true and reliable words, so that you may give a dependable report to those who sent you? |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Don't rob a poor person because he is poor, and don't crush the oppressed at the city gate, |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23for the LORD will champion their cause and will plunder those who plunder them. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Don't make friends with an angry person, and don't be a companion of a hot-tempered one, |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25or you will learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Don't be one of those who enter agreements, who put up security for loans. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If you have nothing with which to pay, even your bed will be taken from under you. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Don't move an ancient boundary marker that your fathers set up. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will stand in the presence of kings. He will not stand in the presence of the unknown. |
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