Proverbs Capítulo 22

22 : 1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.

22 : 2 The rich and the poor meet together. Jehovah is the maker of them all.

22 : 3 A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

22 : 4 The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah is riches and honor and life.

22 : 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of a perverse man. He who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

22 : 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.

22 : 7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

22 : 8 He who sows iniquity shall reap calamity, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

22 : 9 He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

22 : 10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.

22 : 11 He who loves pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips, the king will be his friend.

22 : 12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the treacherous man.

22 : 13 The sluggard says, There is a lion outside. I shall be slain in the streets.

22 : 14 The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall in it.

22 : 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

22 : 16 He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

22 : 17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.

22 : 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.

22 : 19 That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

22 : 20 Have I not written to thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge,

22 : 21 to make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou may carry back words of truth to those who send thee?

22 : 22 Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

22 : 23 For Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

22 : 24 Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,

22 : 25 lest thou learn this ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

22 : 26 Be thou not one of those who strike hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

22 : 27 If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

22 : 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

22 : 29 See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.