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- A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold.
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- The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.
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- A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself;
But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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- The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah [Is] riches, and honor, and life.
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- Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
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- Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
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- The rich ruleth over the poor;
And the borrower is servant to the lender.
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- He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity;
And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
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- He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed;
For he giveth of his bread to the poor.
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- Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out;
Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
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- He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
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- The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge;
But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
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- The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.
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- The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
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- Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
[But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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- He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.
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- Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
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- For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
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- That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
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- Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
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- To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
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- Rob not the poor, because he is poor;
Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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- For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them.
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- Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger;
And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
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- Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul.
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- Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts.
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- If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
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- Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.
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- Seest thou a man diligent in his business?
he shall stand before kings;
He shall not stand before mean men.
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