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A name rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favour rather than silver and gold. |
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The rich and poor meet together: the LORD the maker of them all. |
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A prudent foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. |
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By humility the fear of the LORD riches, and honour, and life. |
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Thorns snares in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. |
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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
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The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower servant to the lender. |
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He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger 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 scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. |
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He that loveth pureness of heart, the grace of his lips the king his friend. |
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The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. |
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The slothful saith, a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. |
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The mouth of strange women a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. |
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Foolishness 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 to increase his he that giveth to the rich, surely to want. |
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Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. |
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For a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. |
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That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made 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 answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? |
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Rob not the poor, because he poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: |
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For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. |
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Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: |
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Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. |
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Be not thou 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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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean . |