Proverbs 22:1-11

1 ¹A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

2 ²The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is ³the maker of them all.

3 ⁴The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

4 The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is ⁵riches and honor and life.^[a]

5 ⁶Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever ⁷guards his soul will keep far from them.

6 ⁸Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

7 ⁹The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

8 Whoever ¹⁰sows injustice will reap calamity, and ¹¹the rod of his fury will fail.

9 ¹²Whoever has a bountiful^[b] eye will be blessed, for he ¹³shares his bread with the poor.

10 ¹⁴Drive out a scoffer, ¹⁵and strife will go out, and ¹⁶quarreling and abuse will cease.

11 He who ¹⁷loves purity of heart, and whose ¹⁸speech is gracious, ¹⁹will have the king as his friend.

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Proverbs 22:1-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 10

This chapter contains an account of the queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon to her great satisfaction, 1Ki 10:1-13, of Solomon's merchandise and riches, and the magnificence of his court, 1Ki 10:14-23, of the rich presents sent to him, and of the purchase of chariots and horses, and other things, he made, 1Ki 10:24-29.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 19

1. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]
2. [Proverbs 29:13]
3. Proverbs 14:31; Job 31:15
4. Proverbs 27:12; [Proverbs 14:16]
5. [Proverbs 21:20, 21]
6. Proverbs 15:19
7. Proverbs 21:23; [1 John 5:18]
8. Ephesians 6:4; 2 Timothy 3:15
9. James 2:6
10. Job 4:8; [Hosea 10:13]
11. [Isaiah 14:6; Isaiah 30:31]
12. [Proverbs 19:17; 2 Corinthians 9:6]
13. [Proverbs 19:17; Luke 14:13, 14]
14. [Genesis 21:9, 10]
15. [Proverbs 26:20]
16. Proverbs 26:20
17. [Proverbs 16:13; Psalms 101:6]
18. [Ecclesiastes 10:12]
19. [Proverbs 14:35]

Footnotes 2

[a]. Or The reward for humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and honor and life
[b]. Hebrew good

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