A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
And {Or, favor is better than &c.}loving favor rather than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor meet together:
Jehovah is the maker of them all.
A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself;
But the simple pass on, and {Hebrew: are mulcted.}suffer for it.
The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah
Is riches, and honor, and life.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse:
He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.
Train up a child {Hebrew: according to his way.}in the way he should go,
And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
The rich ruleth over the poor;
And the borrower is servant to the lender.
He that soweth iniquity shall reap {Or, vanity}calamity;
And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
He that hath a {Hebrew: good.}bountiful eye shall be blessed;
For he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out;
Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.
He that loveth {Another reading is, the pure of heart.}pureness of heart,
{Or, Hath grace in his lips Or, That hath grace in his lips}For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge;
But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
The sluggard saith, There is a lion without;
I shall be slain in the streets.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit;
He {Or, against whom Jehovah hath indignation}that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain,
And he that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.
Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,
And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee,
If they be established together upon thy lips.
That thy trust may be in Jehovah,
I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
Have not I written unto thee {The word is doubtful. Another reading is, heretofore.}excellent things
{Or, in}Of counsels and knowledge,
To make thee know {Or, of a certainty the words &c.}the certainty of the words of truth,
That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
Rob not the poor, {Or, for}because he is poor;
Neither {Or, crush}oppress the afflicted in the gate:
For Jehovah will plead their cause,
And despoil of life those that despoil them.
Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger;
And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:
Lest thou learn this ways,
And get a snare to thy soul.
Be thou not one of them that strike hands,
Or of them that are sureties for debts.
If thou hast not wherewith to pay,
Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Remove not the ancient landmark,
Which thy fathers have set.
Seest thou a man {Or, skilful}diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings;
He shall not stand before {Hebrew: obscure.}mean men.
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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.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.
Rob not the poor, {Or, for}because he is poor;Neither {Or, crush}oppress the afflicted in the gate:
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker;But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
The poor useth entreaties;But the rich answereth roughly.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—
But forasmuch as he had not wherewith to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins— ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?
Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.