Proverbs 22

English Tyndale 1537

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1A good name is more worth than great riches, and loving favour is better than silver and gold.

2Whether riches or poverty do meet us, it cometh all of GOD.

3A wise man seeth the plague and hideth himself, but the foolish go on still and are punished.

4The end of lowliness and the fear of GOD, is riches, honour, prosperity and health.

5Spears and snares are in the way of the froward, but he that will keep his soul, let him flee from such.

6If thou teachest a child in his youth what way he should go, he shall not leave it when he is old.

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

8He that soweth wickedness shall reap sorrow, and the rod of his plague shall destroy him.

9A loving eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread unto the poor.

10Cast out the scornful man, and so shall strife go out with him, yea variance and slander(sclaunder) shall cease.

11Who so delighteth to be of a clean heart and of gracious lips, the king shall be his friend.

12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, but as for the words of the despiteful, he bringeth them to naught.

13The slothful body sayeth: There is a lion(lyo) without, I might be slain in the street.

14The mouth of an harlot is a deep pit, wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.

15Foolishness sticketh in the heart of the lad, but the rod of correction driveth it away.

16Who so doth a poor man wrong to increase his own riches, giveth (commonly) unto the rich, and at the last cometh to poverty himself.

17My son, bow down thine ear, and harken unto the words of wisdom, apply thy mind unto my doctrine:

18for it is a pleasant thing if thou keep it in thine heart, and practice it in thy mouth:

19that thou mayest alway put thy trust in the LORD.

20Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning?

21That I might shew thee the truth and that thou with the verity mightest answer them that lay anything against thee?

22See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgement:

23for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

24Make no friendship with an angry willful man, and keep no company with the furious:

25lest thou learn his ways, and receive hurt unto thy soul.

26Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt:

27for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.

28Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

29Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

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