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A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
2
The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
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The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
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Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
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He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
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He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
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Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
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He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.