A Good Name

22 A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD [is] Maker of them all.

3 The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

4 The rewards of humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] wealth and honor and life.

5 Thorns and snares [lie] on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

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

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

8 He who sows injustice will reap disaster and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.[fn]

9 A generous [man] will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

10 Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

11 He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips [will have] the king for a friend.

12 The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

13 The slacker says, “[There is] a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

15 Foolishness [is] bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

16 Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich [will] surely lead to poverty.