pA good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,

and favor is better than silver or gold.

2  qThe rich and the poor meet together;

the Lord is rthe Maker of them all.

3  sThe 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 triches and honor and life.1

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

whoever vguards his soul will keep far from them.

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

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

7  xThe rich rules over the poor,

and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

8  Whoever ysows injustice will reap calamity,

and zthe rod of his fury will fail.

9  aWhoever has a bountiful2 eye will be blessed,

for he bshares his bread with the poor.

10  cDrive out a scoffer, dand strife will go out,

and equarreling and abuse will cease.

11  He who floves purity of heart,

and whose gspeech is gracious, hwill have the king as his friend.