1 ¶ A good reputation is rather to be chosen than great riches and good grace rather than silver and gold.

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

3 ¶ A prudent man foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and receive hurt.

4 ¶ Riches and honour and life are the remuneration of humility and of the fear of the LORD.

5 ¶ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he that keeps his soul shall be far from them.

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

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

8 ¶ He that sows iniquity shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his anger shall fail.

9 ¶ He that has a merciful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the destitute.

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

11 ¶ He that loves 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 overthrows the words of the transgressor.

13 ¶ The slothful man says, 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 oppresses the poor to increase his riches and who gives 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 wisdom.

18 F or it is a delightful thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall be ordered together in thy lips.

19 T hat thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

20 H ave I not written unto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,

21 t hat I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mightest answer the words of truth to those that send unto thee?

22 ¶ Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:

23 F or the LORD will judge their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

24 ¶ Do not meddle with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

25 L est 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 I f thou hast nothing to pay, why should they 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 work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.