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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Folly 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] | 16Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Be not one of those who give pledges, who put 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 the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. |
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