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A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, {cf15i and} loving favour rather than silver and gold. |
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The rich and the poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all. |
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A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. |
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The reward of humility {cf15i and} the fear of the LORD {cf15i is} riches, and honour, and life. |
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Thorns {cf15i and} snares are in the way of the froward: he that keepeth his soul shall be far from them. |
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Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it. |
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The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. |
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He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail. |
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He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. |
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Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and ignominy shall cease. |
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He that loveth pureness of heart, {cf15i for} the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. |
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The eyes of the LORD preserve {cf15i him that hath} knowledge, but he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man. |
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The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets. |
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The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. |
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Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; {cf15i but} the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. |
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He that oppresseth the poor to increase his {cf15i gain, and} he that giveth to the rich, {cf15i cometh} only to want. |
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Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. |
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For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips. |
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That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made {cf15i them} known to thee this day, even to thee. |
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Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge; |
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To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee? |
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Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
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For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them. |
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Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go: |
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Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
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Be thou not one of them that strike hands, {cf15i or} of them that are sureties for debts: |
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If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? |
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Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. |
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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. |
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