
1 Fame is preferable to great wealth, favour, to silver and gold. Eccl 7:1 1Kgs 1:47 Luke 10:20 Acts 7:10 Phil 4:3 Heb 11:39 2 Rich and poor rub shoulders, Yahweh has made them both. Job 31:15 Prov 14:31 1Cor 12:21 Jas 2:2-5 Job 34:19 Prov 29:13 1Sam 2:7 3 The discreet sees danger and takes shelter, simpletons go ahead and pay the penalty. Prov 14:16 Prov 27:12 1Thess 5:2-6 Heb 11:7 Prov 7:7 Prov 29:1 Exod 9:20-21 4 The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh, and riches, honour and life. Prov 21:21 Isa 57:15 Matt 6:33 Ps 112:1-3 Prov 3:16 Jas 4:10 Ps 34:9-10 5 Thorns and snares line the path of the wilful, whoever values life will stay at a distance. Prov 15:19 1John 5:18 Job 18:8 Josh 23:13 Jude 1:20-21 Ps 11:6 Ps 18:26-27 6 Give a lad a training suitable to his character and, even when old, he will not go back on it. Eph 6:4 2Tim 3:15 Deut 6:7 Gen 18:19 Deut 4:9 Ps 78:3-6 1Sam 1:28 7 The rich lords it over the poor, the borrower is the lender's slave. Prov 18:23 Prov 22:16 Prov 22:22 2Kgs 4:1 Jas 2:6 Matt 18:25 Neh 5:4-5 8 Whoever sows injustice reaps disaster, and the rod of such anger will disappear. Job 4:8 Ps 125:3 Hos 10:13 Isa 30:31 Gal 6:7-8 Hos 8:7 Isa 9:4 9 A kindly eye will earn a blessing, such a person shares out food with the poor. Prov 19:17 1Pet 4:9 2Cor 8:1-2 1Tim 6:18-19 2Cor 9:6-11 Acts 20:35 Deut 15:7-11 10 Expel the mocker and strife goes too, law-suits and dislike die down. Gen 21:9-10 1Cor 5:13 Neh 4:1-3 Neh 13:28 Ps 101:5 Prov 21:24 1Cor 5:5-6 11 Whoever loves the pure of heart and is gracious of speech has the king for a friend. Prov 16:13 Matt 5:8 Prov 14:35 Ps 101:6 Dan 2:46-49 Dan 3:30 Dan 6:20-23 12 Yahweh's eyes protect knowledge, but he confounds deceitful speeches. 2Tim 3:8-9 2Chr 16:9 2Thess 2:8 Acts 5:39 Acts 8:9-12 Acts 12:23-24 Acts 13:8-12 13 'There is a lion outside,' says the idler, 'I shall be killed in the street!' Num 13:32-33 Prov 15:19 Prov 26:13-16 14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit, into it falls the man whom Yahweh rebukes. Eccl 7:26 Prov 23:27 Prov 6:24-29 Deut 32:19 Judg 16:20-21 Neh 13:26 Ps 81:12 15 Folly is anchored in the heart of a youth, the whip of instruction will rid him of it. Prov 13:24 Prov 23:13-14 Prov 29:15 Prov 19:18 Heb 12:10-11 Prov 29:17 Eph 2:3 16 Harsh treatment enriches the poor, but a gift impoverishes the rich. Ps 12:5 Prov 22:22-23 Jas 2:13 Jas 5:1-5 Job 20:19-29 Luke 6:33-35 Luke 14:12-14 17 Give ear, listen to the sayings of the sages, and apply your heart to what I know, Prov 23:12 Eccl 7:25 Eccl 8:9 Eccl 8:16 Isa 55:3 Matt 17:5 Ps 90:12 18 for it will be a delight to keep them deep within you to have them all ready on your lips. Prov 2:10 Jer 15:16 Ps 119:103 Heb 13:15 Job 32:18-19 John 7:38 Mal 2:7 19 So that your trust may be in Yahweh, it is you whom I wish to instruct today. Prov 3:5 1Pet 1:21 Isa 12:2 Isa 26:4 Jer 17:7 Ps 62:8 20 Have I not written for you thirty chapters of advice and knowledge, Prov 8:6 2Pet 1:19-21 2Tim 3:15-17 Hos 8:12 Ps 12:6 21 to make you know the certainty of true sayings, so that you can return with sound answers to those who sent you? Luke 1:3-4 1Pet 3:15 1John 5:13 John 20:31 22 Do not despoil the weak, for he is weak, and do not oppress the poor at the gate, Exod 23:6 Mal 3:5 Zech 7:10 Prov 22:16 Job 31:16 Job 31:21 Ezek 22:29 23 for Yahweh takes up their cause, and extorts the life of their extortioners. Ps 12:5 1Sam 25:39 Ps 140:12 Prov 23:11 Jer 51:36 Ps 35:10 Jer 50:34 24 Do not make friends with one who gives way to anger, make no one quick-tempered a companion of yours, Prov 29:22 Prov 21:24 2Cor 6:14-17 25 for fear you learn such behaviour and in it find a snare for yourself. 1Cor 15:33 Ps 106:35 Prov 13:20 26 Do not be one of those who go guarantor, who go surety for debts: Prov 11:15 Prov 17:18 Prov 6:1-5 Prov 27:13 27 if you have no means of paying your bed will be taken from under you. Prov 20:16 2Kgs 4:1 Exod 22:26-27 28 Do not displace the ancient boundary-stone set by your ancestors. Deut 19:14 Deut 27:17 Prov 23:10 Job 24:2 29 You see someone alert at his business? His aim will be to serve kings; not for him the service of the obscure. 1Kgs 11:28 1Kgs 10:8 Gen 41:46 Matt 25:21 Matt 25:23 Prov 10:4 Prov 12:24 |