English Revised Version

Proverbs 22:1-9 English Revised Version (ERV)

1. A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

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

3. A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

4. The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD is riches, and honour, and life.

5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

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

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

8. He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.