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22 Choose a good reputation over great riches;
    being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold.

The rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord made them both.

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Yahweh Is the Maker of All

22 A (A)good name is to be chosen over great wealth,
Favor is better than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor meet together in this
Yahweh is the (B)Maker of them all.

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Just as the rich rule the poor,
    so the borrower is servant to the lender.

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

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Blessed are those who are generous,
    because they feed the poor.

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He who [a]is (A)generous will be blessed,
For he (B)gives from his food to the poor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:9 Lit has a good eye

16 A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor
    or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.

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16 He (A)who oppresses the poor to make [a]more for himself
Or who gives to the rich (B)will only come to lack.

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  1. Proverbs 22:16 Lit much

26 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt
    or put up security for someone else.
27 If you can’t pay it,
    even your bed will be snatched from under you.

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26 Do not be among those who (A)strike [a]hands in pledge,
Among those who become guarantors for debts.
27 If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he (B)take your bed from under you?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:26 Lit palms