Sprüche 22

1. ¹A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
2. ²The rich and the poor meet together--the LORD is the maker of them all.
3. ³A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished.
4. ⁴The reward of humility is the fear of the LORD, even riches, and honour, and life.
5. ⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
6. ⁶Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7. ⁷The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
8. ⁸He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.
9. ⁹He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
10. ¹⁰Cast out the scorner, and contention will go out; yea, strife and shame will cease.
11. ¹¹He that loveth pureness of heart, that hath grace in his lips, the king shall be his friend.
12. ¹²The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, but He overthroweth the words of the faithless man.
13. ¹³The sluggard saith: 'There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.'
14. ¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15. ¹⁵Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16. ¹⁶One may oppress the poor, yet will their gain increase; one may give to the rich, yet will want come.
17. ¹⁷Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
18. ¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips.
19. ¹⁹That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
20. ²⁰Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;
21. ²¹That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mightest bring back words of truth to them that send thee?
22. ²²Rob not the weak, because he is weak, neither crush the poor in the gate;
23. ²³For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.
24. ²⁴Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go;
25. ²⁵Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26. ²⁶Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts;
27. ²⁷If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28. ²⁸Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
29. ²⁹Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

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