| 1 | ¶ A {good} name is rather to be chosen than great riches; loving favour rather than silver and gold. | |
| 2 | ¶ The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all. | |
| 3 | ¶ A prudent {man} seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished. | |
| 4 | ¶ The reward of humility {and} the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life. | |
| 5 | ¶ Thorns {and} snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them. | |
| 6 | ¶ Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it. | |
| 7 | ¶ The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender. | |
| 8 | ¶ He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end. | |
| 9 | ¶ He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor. | |
| 10 | ¶ Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease. | |
| 11 | ¶ He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend. | |
| 12 | ¶ The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful. | |
| 13 | ¶ The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets! | |
| 14 | ¶ The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein. | |
| 15 | ¶ Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. | |
| 16 | ¶ He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, {bringeth} only to want. | |
| 17 | ¶ Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge. | |
| 18 | For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips. | |
| 19 | That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made {them} known to thee this day, even to thee. | |
| 20 | Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge, | |
| 21 | that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee? | |
| 22 | ¶ Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; | |
| 23 | for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them. | |
| 24 | ¶ Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man; | |
| 25 | lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul. | |
| 26 | ¶ Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts: | |
| 27 | if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? | |
| 28 | ¶ Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set. | |
| 29 | ¶ Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean. | |