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Proverbs 22:1-10

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

1 A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

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

2 Rich and poor have this in common: 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.

3 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

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

4 Humility is the fear of the LORD; its wages are riches and honor and life.

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

5 In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay 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.

6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

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

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

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

8 Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.

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

9 The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

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

10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

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