Proverbs 22

1A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,

and favor is better than silver or gold.

2The rich and the poor meet together;

the Lord is the maker of them all.

3A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;

but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

4The reward for humility and fear of the Lord

is riches and honor and life.

5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;

he who guards himself will keep far from them.

6Train up a child in the way he should go,

and when he is old he will not depart from it.

7The rich rules over the poor,

and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

8He who sows injustice will reap calamity,

and the rod of his fury will fail.

9He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed,

for he shares his bread with the poor.

10Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,

and quarreling and abuse will cease.

11He who loves purity of heart,

and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

12The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,

but he overthrows the words of the faithless.

13The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside!

I shall be slain in the streets!"

14The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit;

he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

16He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,

or gives to the rich, will only come to want.