Proverbs - Chapter 22 | English Standard Version

  • 1. A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
  • 2. The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
  • 3. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
  • 4. The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
  • 5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.
  • 6. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
  • 7. The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  • 8. Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
  • 9. Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
  • 10. Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
  • 11. He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
  • 12. The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
  • 13. The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!"
  • 14. The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
  • 15. Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
  • 16. Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
  • 17. Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,
  • 18. for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
  • 19. That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
  • 20. Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge,
  • 21. to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
  • 22. Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
  • 23. for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
  • 24. Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
  • 25. lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
  • 26. Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.
  • 27. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
  • 28. Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
  • 29. 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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