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22 A good name is more desirable than great riches,
    and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor have this in common:
    Yahweh is the maker of them all.

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22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,
And [a]loving favor rather than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor meet together:
Jehovah is the maker of them all.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:1 Or, favor is better than etc.

The rich rule over the poor.
    The borrower is servant 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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He who has a generous eye will be blessed;
    for he shares his food with the poor.

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

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  1. Proverbs 22:9 Hebrew good.

16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,
    both come to poverty.

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16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain,
And he that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.

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26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
    of those who are collateral for debts.
27 If you don’t have means to pay,
    why should he take away your bed from under you?

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26 Be thou not one of them that strike hands,
Or of them that are sureties for debts.
27 If thou hast not wherewith to pay,
Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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