LEB PROV section

Proverbs 22

favor is better than silver and gold .[fn]
2 Rich and poor have much in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them.
3 The clever sees danger and hides, but the simple go on and suffer.
4 The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh— wealth and honor and life.
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself[fn] will keep away from them.
6 Train the child concerning his way ;[fn] even when he is old, he will not stray from it.
7 The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of the lender .[fn]
8 He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail.
9 He who is generous[fn] will be blessed, for he gives to the poor from his own bread.
10 Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out; quarrel and abuse will cease.
11 He who loves purity of heart and has gracious speech ,[fn] his friend is the king.
12 The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless.
13 A lazy person says “A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!”
14 A deep pit is the mouth of an adulteress ,[fn] he with whom Yahweh is angry will fall there.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart[fn] of a boy;[fn] the rod of discipline will drive it[fn] from him.
16 He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself, or gives to the rich, will come to poverty .[fn]

22:? Literally “from silver and from gold, favor is better”

22:? Or “soul,” or “life”

22:? Literally “on the mouth of his way”

22:? Literally “the borrower belonging to a man”

22:? Literally “the generous of eye”

22:? Literally “grace of his lips”

22:? Literally “a strange woman”

22:? Or “mind”

22:? Or “young man,” or “adolescent”

22:? That is, folly

22:? Literally “only loss”

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