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A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. |
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The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all. |
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The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. |
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The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life. |
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Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. |
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Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. |
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The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender. |
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Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail. |
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Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. |
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Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. |
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He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend. |
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The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor. |
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The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!" |
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The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it. |
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Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. |
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Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. |
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Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge, |
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for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. |
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That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you. |
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Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge, |
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to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you? |
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Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, |
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for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them. |
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Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, |
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lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. |
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Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. |
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If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you? |
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Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set. |
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Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. |
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