Proverbs 22
1 More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.
A good name is to be chosen aboue great riches, and louing fauour is aboue siluer and aboue golde.
2 The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
The rich and poore meete together: the Lord is the maker of them all.
3 A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.
4 The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
The rewarde of humilitie, and the feare of God is riches, and glory, and life.
5 Thorns and snares, are in the way of the perverse, —he that guardeth his soul, shall be far from them.
Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that regardeth his soule, will depart farre from them.
6 Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.
Teache a childe in the trade of his way, and when he is olde, he shall not depart from it.
7 The rich, over the poor, beareth rule, —and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.
The rich ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruant to the man that lendeth.
8 He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
He that soweth iniquitie, shall reape affliction, and the rodde of his anger shall faile.
9 A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed, —because he hath given of his bread to the poor.
He that hath a good eye, he shalbe blessed: for he giueth of his bread vnto the poore.
10 Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
Cast out the scorner, and strife shall go out: so contention and reproche shall cease.
11 Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
Hee that loueth purenesse of heart for the grace of his lippes, the King shalbe his friend.
12 The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: but hee ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressour.
13 Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
The slouthfull man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete.
14 A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.
15 Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
Foolishnesse is bounde in the heart of a childe: but the rodde of correction shall driue it away from him.
16 He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.
17 Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;
Incline thine eare, and heare the wordes of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.
18 For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.
19 That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee to-day, even to thee.
That thy confidence may be in the Lord, I haue shewed thee this day: thou therefore take heede.
20 Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge:
Haue not I written vnto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,
21 To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.
That I might shewe thee the assurance of the wordes of trueth to answere the wordes of trueth to them that sende to thee?
22 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate;
Robbe not the poore, because hee is poore, neither oppresse the afflicted in iudgement.
23 For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.
For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.
24 Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in:
Make no friendship with an angrie man, neither goe with the furious man,
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.
Least thou learne his wayes, and receiue destruction to thy soule.
26 Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts:
Be not thou of them that touch the hand, nor among them that are suretie for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
If thou hast nothing to paye, why causest thou that he should take thy bed from vnder thee?
28 Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father’s made.
Thou shalt not remooue the ancient bounds which thy fathers haue made.
29 Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.
Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.
