22 (A)A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
    and favor is better than silver or gold.
(B)The rich and the poor meet together;
    the Lord is (C)the Maker of them all.

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(A)The rich rules over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

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(A)Whoever has a bountiful[a] eye will be blessed,
    for he (B)shares his bread with the poor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:9 Hebrew good

16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
    or gives to the rich, (A)will only come to poverty.

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26 Be not one of those who (A)give pledges,
    who put up security for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
    why should (B)your bed be taken from under you?

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