(A)Train up a child in the way he should go;
    even when he is old he will not depart from it.
(B)The rich rules over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Whoever (C)sows injustice will reap calamity,
    and (D)the rod of his fury will fail.
(E)Whoever has a bountiful[a] eye will be blessed,
    for he (F)shares his bread with the poor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:9 Hebrew good

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