#ScriptureReflection - Proverbs 22:17-29 < Thirty Sayings of the Wise: 1-6 > (9.2.21)

Thirty Sayings of the Wise

Saying 1

¹⁷  Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;

apply your heart to what I teach,

¹⁸  for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart

and have all of them ready on your lips.

¹⁹  So that your trust may be in the LORD,

I teach you today, even you.

²⁰  Have I not written thirty sayings for you,

sayings of counsel and knowledge,

²¹  teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,

so that you bring back truthful reports

to those you serve?

Saying 2

²²  Do not exploit the poor because they are poor

and do not crush the needy in court,

²³  for the LORD will take up their case

and will exact life for life.

Saying 3

²⁴  Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,

do not associate with one easily angered,

²⁵  or you may learn their ways

and get yourself ensnared.

Saying 4

²⁶  Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge

or puts up security for debts;

²⁷  if you lack the means to pay,

your very bed will be snatched from under you.

Saying 5

²⁸  Do not move an ancient boundary stone

set up by your ancestors.

Saying 6

²⁹  Do you see someone skilled in their work?

They will serve before kings;

they will not serve before officials of low rank.

Source: NIV (New International Version)