¹ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. ² The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. ³ A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. ⁴ By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. ⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul will be 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 rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender . ⁸ He that sows iniquity will reap vanity: and the rod of his anger will fail. ⁹ He that has a bountiful eye will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor. ¹⁰ Cast out the scorner, and contention will go out; yes, strife and rebuke will cease. ¹¹ He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend. ¹² The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor. ¹³ The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I will be slain in the streets. ¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD will fall in it. ¹⁵ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child but the rod of correction will drive it far from him. ¹⁶ He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, will surely come] to want. ¹⁷ Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you they will withal be fitted in your lips. ¹⁹ That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day , even to you. ²⁰ Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge, ²¹ That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth that you might answer the words of truth to them that send to you? ²² Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate ²³ For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. ²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man you will not go ²⁵ unless you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul. ²⁶ Be not you one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. ²⁷ If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you? ²⁸ Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set. ²⁹ Seest you a man diligent in his business? he will stand before kings he will not stand before mean [men].