Proverbs 22:6-8

Living Bible

⁶Teach a child to choose the right path, and when he is older, he will remain upon it.

⁷Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸The unjust tyrant will reap disaster, and his reign of terror shall end.

Proverbs 22:6-8

New International Version

⁶Start^(A) children off on the way they should go,^(B)
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.^(C)

⁷The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.

⁸Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,^(D)
and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.^(E)

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