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A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold.
2
The rich and the poor have this in common:
the
3
The clever see danger and hide;
but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
4
The reward for humility and fear of the
is riches and honor and life.
5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
the cautious will keep far from them.
6
Train children in the right way,
and when old, they will not stray.
7
The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
8
Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity,
and the rod of anger will fail.
9
Those who are generous are blessed,
for they share their bread with the poor.
10
Drive out a scoffer, and strife goes out;
quarreling and abuse will cease.
11
Those who love a pure heart and are gracious in speech
will have the king as a friend.
12
The eyes of the
but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
13
The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!"
14
The mouth of a loose 1 woman is a deep pit;
he with whom the
15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy,
but the rod of discipline drives it far away.
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Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.