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A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth, and favor rather than silver and gold.
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Rich and poor meet together; Yahuah is the Maker of them all.
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The prudent sees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
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The reward of humility and the fear of Yahuah is wealth, and honor, and life.
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Thorns and snares are in the way of the twisted. The one who guards his being shall keep far from them.
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Train a child according to his way, and even when he grows old he shall not depart from it.
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The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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The one who sows crookedness shall reap trouble, and the rod of his fury shall cease.
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The one of good eye shall be blessed, for he gives from his bread to the poor.
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Drive out the scoffer, and contention shall go out, and strife and shame shall cease.
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The one who loves purity of heart, whose lips are gracious, the king shall be his companion.
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The eyes of Yahuah guard knowledge, but He overturns the words of the treacherous.
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The sluggard says: “There is a lion outside. I shall be killed in the streets.”
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The mouth of foreign women is a deep pit. The one against whom Yahuah is angry shall fall there.
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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline shall drive it far from him.
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The one who oppresses the poor to increase for himself, and the one who gives to the rich, surely comes to lack.
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Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and set your heart upon my knowledge.
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For it is pleasant when you guard them within you, and they are established together upon your lips.
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So that your trust may be in Yahuah, I have made them known to you this day, even to you.
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Have I not written to you excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
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to make you know the certainty of words of truth, that you may return words of truth to those who sent you?
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Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted in the gate.
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For Yahuah will contend their controversy and plunder the being of those who plunder them.
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Do not associate with an ish of anger, and with a master of wrath do not go,
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lest you learn his paths and take a snare for your being.
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Do not be among those who strike hands, among those who become guarantors for debts.
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If you have nothing with which to repay, why should he take your bed from beneath you?
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Do not move the ancient boundary marker which your fathers established.
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Do you see an ish skillful in his work? Before kings he shall stand. He shall not stand before obscure men.