{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/erv/proverbs/22","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T20:11:40.303Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":22,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":21,"nextChapter":23,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The rich and the poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and suffer for it."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD is riches, and honour, and life."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that keepeth his soul shall be far from them."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity: and the rod of his wrath shall fail."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and ignominy shall cease."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The eyes of the LORD preserve him that hath knowledge, but he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be murdered in the streets."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, and he that giveth to the rich, cometh only to want."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Have not I written unto thee excellent things of counsels and knowledge;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; and with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Be thou not one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"If thou hast not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 22 (ERV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 22](https://primebible.com/erv/proverbs/22)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/proverbs/22 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}