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Proverbs

1. 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
2. 22:20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
3. 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
4. 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
5. 22:26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
6. 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
7. 22:29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
8. 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
9. 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
10. 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
11. 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
12. 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
13. 23:9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
14. 23:10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
15. 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
16. 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
17. 23:18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
18. 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
19. 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
20. 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
21. 23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
22. 23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
23. 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
24. 24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
25. 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
26. 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
27. 24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
28. 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
29. 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
30. 24:21 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
31. 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
32. 24:28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
33. 24:29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.
34. 25:6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
35. 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
36. 25:9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
37. 25:10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
38. 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
39. 26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.
40. 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
41. 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
42. 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
43. 26:17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
44. 26:19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
45. 26:25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
46. 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
47. 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
48. 27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
49. 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
50. 27:24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?