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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth, good favor more than silver or gold. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the creator of them both. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The reward for humility and fearing the LORD is riches and honor and life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9A generous person will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious--the king will be his friend. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The eyes of the LORD guard knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless person. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against 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 will drive it far from him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich--both end up only in poverty. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my instruction. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So that your confidence may be in the LORD, I am making them known to you today--even you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23for the LORD will plead their case and will rob those who are robbing them. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person, |
| 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] | 26Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you! |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people. |
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