1902 Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR)
Proverbs 22
1 From this chapter to the five and twentieth are sundry observations of moral virtues, and their contrary vices.
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22:1 ¶
More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.
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22:2 ¶
The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
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22:3 ¶
A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
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22:4 ¶
The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
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22:5 ¶
Thorns and snares, are in the way of the perverse,he that guardeth his soul, shall be far from them.
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22:6 ¶
Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.
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22:7 ¶
The rich, over the poor, beareth rule,and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.
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22:8 ¶
He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
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22:9 ¶
A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed,because he hath given of his bread to the poor.
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22:10 ¶
Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
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22:11 ¶
Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
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22:12 ¶
The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
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22:13 ¶
Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
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22:14 ¶
A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
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22:15 ¶
Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
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22:16 ¶
He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.
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22:17 ¶
Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;
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22:18
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
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22:19
That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee today, even to thee.
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22:20
Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:
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22:21
To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.
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22:22 ¶
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;
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22:23
For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.
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22:24 ¶
Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:
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22:25
Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.
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22:26 ¶
Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:
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22:27
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
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22:28 ¶
Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father's made.
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22:29 ¶
Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.