Proverbs 22, side by side

¹A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

¹A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

²The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.

²The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

³The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

³A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

⁴The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

⁴By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

⁵Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

⁷The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

⁷The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

⁸He who sows injustice will reap disaster, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

⁸He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

⁹A generous man will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

⁹He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

¹⁰Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.

¹⁰Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

¹¹He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

¹¹He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

¹²The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

¹²The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

¹³The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

¹³The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

¹⁴The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

¹⁴The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

¹⁵Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

¹⁵Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

¹⁶Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

¹⁶He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

¹⁷Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise— apply your mind to my knowledge—

¹⁷Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

¹⁸for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.

¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

¹⁹So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you.

¹⁹That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

²⁰Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

²⁰Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

²¹to show you true and reliable words, that you may soundly answer those who sent you?

²¹That 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?

²²Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

²²Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

²³for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

²³For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

²⁴Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man,

²⁴Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

²⁵or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

²⁵Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

²⁶Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

²⁶Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

²⁷If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

²⁷If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

²⁸Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

²⁸Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

²⁹Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

²⁹Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.