22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
    and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

² The rich and poor meet together:
    the Lord is the maker of them all.

³ A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself:
    but the simple pass on, and are punished.

⁴ By humility and the fear of the Lord
    are riches, and honour, and life.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward:
    he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go:
    and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor,
    and the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸ He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity:
    and the rod of his anger shall fail.

⁹ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed;
    for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out;
    yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

¹¹ He that loveth pureness of heart,
    for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

¹² The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
    and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

¹³ The slothful man saith, There is a lion without,
    I shall be slain in the streets.

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit:
    he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.

¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child;
    but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches,
    and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

¹⁷ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,
and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee;
they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
¹⁹ That thy trust may be in the Lord,
I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
²⁰ Have not I written to thee excellent things
in counsels and knowledge,
²¹ that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth;
that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor:
neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
²³ for the Lord will plead their cause,
and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man;
and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
²⁵ lest thou learn his ways,
and get a snare to thy soul.
²⁶ Be not thou one of them that strike hands,
or of them that are sureties for debts.
²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay,
why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
²⁸ Remove not the ancient landmark,
which thy fathers have set.
²⁹ Seest thou a man diligent in his business?
he shall stand before kings;
he shall not stand before mean men.