| 22:1 | A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. |
| 22:2 | The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. |
| 22:3 | A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
| 22:4 | By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. |
| 22:5 | Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. |
| 22:6 | Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
| 22:7 | The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
| 22:8 | He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. |
| 22:9 | He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. |
| 22:10 | Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. |
| 22:11 | He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. |
| 22:12 | The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. |
| 22:13 | The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. |
| 22:14 | The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. |
| 22:15 | Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. |
| 22:16 | He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. |
| 22:17 | Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. |
| 22:18 | For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. |
| 22:19 | That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. |
| 22:20 | Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, |
| 22:21 | That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? |
| 22:22 | Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
| 22:22 | 貧窮人、你不可因他貧窮就搶奪他的物．也不可在城門口欺壓困苦人． |
| 22:22 | 贫穷人，你不可因他贫穷，就抢夺他的物。也不可在城门口欺压困苦人。 |
| job:5:4 | His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. |
| job:31:16 | If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; |
| job:31:21 | If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: |
| zec:7:10 | And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. |
| mal:3:5 | And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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| 22:23 | For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. |
| 22:24 | Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: |
| 22:25 | Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
| 22:26 | Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. |
| 22:27 | If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? |
| 22:28 | Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. |
| 22:29 | Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. |
