English Bible
Proverbs 22
Big screen- 1A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
- 2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
- 3A prudent man forsees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
- 4By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
- 5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: he that does keep his soul shall be far from them.
- 6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
- 7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
- 8He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
- 9He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.
- 10Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
- 11He that loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
- 12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.
- 13The slothful man says, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
- 14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
- 15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
- 16He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to lack.
- 17Bow down yours ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply yours heart unto my knowledge.
- 18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall likewise be fitted in your lips.
- 19That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.
- 20Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
- 21That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send unto you?
- 22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- 23For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
- 24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man you shall not go:
- 25Lest you learn his ways, and get a snare to your soul.
- 26Be not you one of them that shake hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
- 27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
- 28Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
- 29See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.