{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro022.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro022.htm","text":"1\u00a0A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.\n \n2\u00a0The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.\n \n3\u00a0A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.\n \n4\u00a0By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.\n \n5\u00a0Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.\n \n6\u00a0Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.\n \n7\u00a0The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.\n \n8\u00a0He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.\n \n9\u00a0He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.\n \n10\u00a0Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.\n \n11\u00a0He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.\n \n12\u00a0The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.\n \n13\u00a0The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.\n \n14\u00a0The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.\n \n15\u00a0Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.\n \n16\u00a0He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.\n \n17\u00a0Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.\n \n18\u00a0For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.\n \n19\u00a0That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.\n \n20\u00a0Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,\n \n21\u00a0That 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?\n \n22\u00a0Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:\n \n23\u00a0For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.\n \n24\u00a0Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:\n \n25\u00a0Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.\n \n26\u00a0Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.\n \n27\u00a0If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?\n \n28\u00a0Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.\n \n29\u00a0Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 22","type":"page"}