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1 - A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.

2 - The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.

3 - The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

4 - The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

5 - Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.

6 - It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

7 - The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.

8 - He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.

9 - He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents, shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.

10 - Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.

11 - He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.

12 - The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.

13 - The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.

14 - The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

15 - Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.

16 - He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.

17 - Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

18 - Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

19 - That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day.

20 - Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge:

21 - That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.

22 - Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:

23 - Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.

24 - Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:

25 - Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.

26 - Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:

27 - For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?

28 - Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

29 - Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.