Proverbs:22-23
rsv@Proverbs:22:1 @ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
rsv@Proverbs:22:2 @ The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
rsv@Proverbs:22:3 @ A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
rsv@Proverbs:22:4 @ The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
rsv@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.
rsv@Proverbs:22:6 @ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
rsv@Proverbs:22:7 @ The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
rsv@Proverbs:22:8 @ He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
rsv@Proverbs:22:9 @ He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
rsv@Proverbs:22:10 @ Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
rsv@Proverbs:22:11 @ He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
rsv@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
rsv@Proverbs:22:13 @ The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"
rsv@Proverbs:22:14 @ The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
rsv@Proverbs:22:15 @ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
rsv@Proverbs:22:16 @ He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.
rsv@Proverbs:22:17 @ Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;
rsv@Proverbs:22:18 @ for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
rsv@Proverbs:22:19 @ That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
rsv@Proverbs:22:20 @ Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
rsv@Proverbs:22:21 @ to show you what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
rsv@Proverbs:22:22 @ Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
rsv@Proverbs:22:23 @ for the LORD will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.
rsv@Proverbs:22:24 @ Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
rsv@Proverbs:22:25 @ lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
rsv@Proverbs:22:26 @ Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.
rsv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
rsv@Proverbs:22:28 @ Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
rsv@Proverbs:22:29 @ Do you see a man skilful in his work? he will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
rsv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;
rsv@Proverbs:23:2 @ and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
rsv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
rsv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.
rsv@Proverbs:23:5 @ When your eyes light upon it, it is gone; for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
rsv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies;
rsv@Proverbs:23:7 @ for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. "Eat and drink!" he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
rsv@Proverbs:23:8 @ You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
rsv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
rsv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;
rsv@Proverbs:23:11 @ for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.
rsv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
rsv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
rsv@Proverbs:23:14 @ If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.
rsv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
rsv@Proverbs:23:16 @ My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
rsv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
rsv@Proverbs:23:18 @ Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
rsv@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
rsv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
rsv@Proverbs:23:21 @ for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
rsv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
rsv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
rsv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
rsv@Proverbs:23:25 @ Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.
rsv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
rsv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.
rsv@Proverbs:23:28 @ She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
rsv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
rsv@Proverbs:23:30 @ Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.
rsv@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
rsv@Proverbs:23:32 @ At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
rsv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
rsv@Proverbs:23:34 @ You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
rsv@Proverbs:23:35 @ "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."
rsv@Proverbs:24:1 @ Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them;
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