<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017049">Proverbs</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017686">Chapter 22</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1017654">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1017716">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Proverbs of Solomon</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017687">1</a>. A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017688">2</a>. The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017689">3</a>. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017690">4</a>. By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017691">5</a>. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017692">6</a>. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017693">7</a>. The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017694">8</a>. He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017695">9</a>. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017696">10</a>. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017697">11</a>. He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017698">12</a>. The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017699">13</a>. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017700">14</a>. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017701">15</a>. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017702">16</a>. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017703">17</a>. Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017704">18</a>. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017705">19</a>. That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017706">20</a>. Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017707">21</a>. That 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?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017708">22</a>. Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017709">23</a>. For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017710">24</a>. Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017711">25</a>. Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017712">26</a>. Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017713">27</a>. If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017714">28</a>. Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017715">29</a>. Seest thou a man diligent in his business?  he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.</li>
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