1  ^eA good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,

and favor is better than silver or gold.

2  ^fThe rich and the poor meet together;

the Lord is ^gthe Maker of them all.

3  ^hThe prudent sees danger and hides himself,

but the simple go on and suffer for it.

4  The reward for humility and fear of the Lord

is riches and honor and life.¹

5  Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;

whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.

6  Train up a child in the way he should go;

even when he is old he will not ⁱdepart from it.

7  The rich rules over the poor,

and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

8  ^jWhoever sows injustice will reap calamity,

and the rod of his fury will fail.

9  Whoever has a bountiful² eye will be blessed,

for ^khe shares his bread with the poor.

10  Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,

and ^lquarreling and abuse will cease.

11  He who loves purity of heart,

and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.

12  The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,

but he overthrows the words of the traitor.

13  ^mThe sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!

I shall be killed in the streets!”

14  The mouth of forbidden³ women is ⁿa deep pit;

^ohe with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

15  ^pFolly is bound up in the heart of a child,

but the rod of ^qdiscipline drives it far from him.

16  Whoever ^roppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,

or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.