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A `good' name is rather to be chosen than great riches, `And' loving favor rather than silver and gold. |
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The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all. |
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A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it. |
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The reward of humility `and' the fear of Jehovah `Is' riches, and honor, and life. |
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Thorns `and' snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them. |
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Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. |
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The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender. |
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He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail. |
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He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor. |
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Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease. |
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He that loveth pureness of heart, `For' the grace of his lips the king will be his friend. |
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The eyes of Jehovah preserve `him that hath' knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man. |
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The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets. |
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The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein. |
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Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; `But' the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. |
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He that oppresseth the poor to increase his `gain', `And' he that giveth to the rich, `shall come' only to want. |
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Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge. |
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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips. |
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That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made `them' known to thee this day, even to thee. |
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Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, |
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To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee? |
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Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
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For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them. |
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Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go: |
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Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul. |
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Be thou not one of them that strike hands, `Or' of them that are sureties for debts. |
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If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee? |
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Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set. |
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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men. |