22 A good name is to be chosen over great wealth;
favor is better than silver and gold.(A)

Rich and poor have this in common:[a]
the Lord makes them all.(B)

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  1. 22:2 Lit poor meet

22 A good name is more desirable than great riches;
    to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.(A)

Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.(B)

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22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

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The rich rule over the poor,(A)
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.(B)

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The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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A generous person[a] will be blessed,(A)
for he shares his food with the poor.(B)

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  1. 22:9 Lit Good of eye

The generous will themselves be blessed,(A)
    for they share their food with the poor.(B)

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He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

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16 Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich—both lead only to poverty.(A)

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16 One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
    and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

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16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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26 Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,[a]
who put up security for loans.(A)
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
even your bed will be taken from under you.(B)

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  1. 22:26 Lit Don’t be among hand slappers

Saying 4

26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge(A)
    or puts up security for debts;
27 if you lack the means to pay,
    your very bed will be snatched from under you.(B)

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26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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