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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn 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] | 8Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The sluggard 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 an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the LORD's wrath falls 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 away. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So that your trust may be in the LORD, I teach 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] | 21teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth, so that you bring back truthful reports to those you serve? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23for the LORD will take up their case and will exact life for life. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank. |
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