# Proverbs 22 
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1. A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. 
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2. The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all. 
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3. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 
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4. The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life. 
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5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. 
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6. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 
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7. The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. 
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8. Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. 
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9. Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. 
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10. Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. 
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11. He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend. 
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12. The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor. 
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13. The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!” 
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14. The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it. 
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15. Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. 
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16. Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. 
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17. Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, 
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18. for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. 
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19. That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you. 
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20. Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, 
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21. to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you? 
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22. Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, 
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23. for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them. 
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24. Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, 
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25. lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. 
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26. Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. 
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27. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? 
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28. Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. 
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29. Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. 

(ESV)