Whoever (A)sows injustice will reap calamity,
    and (B)the rod of his fury will fail.
(C)Whoever has a bountiful[a] eye will be blessed,
    for he (D)shares his bread with the poor.
10 (E)Drive out a scoffer, (F)and strife will go out,
    and (G)quarreling and abuse will cease.
11 He who (H)loves purity of heart,
    and whose (I)speech is gracious, (J)will have the king as his friend.
12 The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,
    but he (K)overthrows the words of the traitor.
13 (L)The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
    I shall be killed in the streets!”
14 The mouth of (M)forbidden[b] women is (N)a deep pit;
    (O)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but (P)the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
    or gives to the rich, (Q)will only come to poverty.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:9 Hebrew good
  2. Proverbs 22:14 Hebrew strange

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