1A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver and gold.2The rich and the poor meet together; the one who made them all is the LORD.3A prudent person sees distress and hides himself, yet the simple pass by and are fined.4The outcome of humility is the fear of the LORD, along with riches, honor, and life.5Thorns and snares lie in the way of the twisted; whoever guards his life stays far from them.6Train up a youth in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not turn aside from it.7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.8Whoever sows injustice will reap evil, and the rod of his fury will come to an end.9A pleasant eye will be blessed, because he gives of his food to the poor.10Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; judgment and dishonor will cease.11One who loves purity of heart has favor on his lips; his neighbor is a king.12The eyes of the LORD watch over knowledge, but he perverts the words of the treacherous.13The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside; I will be slain in the midst of the streets."14The mouth of strangers is a deep pit; the one who angers the LORD will fall into it.15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.16Whoever oppresses the poor to increase for himself gives to the rich and comes only to need.