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- A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches;
loving favour rather than silver and gold.
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- The rich and 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 are punished.
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- The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life.
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- Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
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- Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and 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 unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
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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 scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease.
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- He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend.
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- The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge;
but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
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- The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
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- The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
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- Folly is bound in the heart of a child;
the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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- He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him;
he that giveth to the rich, [bringeth] 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: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
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- That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
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- Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
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- 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?
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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 the soul of those that despoil them.
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- Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;
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- lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.
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- Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
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- if thou hast nothing 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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- Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work?
He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.
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