'A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.' The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all. 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.' The borrower is servant to the lender. Rob not the poor because he is poor, 'for Jehovah will plead their cause.' At verse 17 the 'words of the wise' begin, thirty sayings with strong Egyptian-instruction parallels, opened honestly on the ANE study: 'Have not I written unto thee excellent things?'

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory and Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary.

Context

Poetry · Solomon, Agur, Lemuel — Proverbs overview

A. 1–16 A Good Name, and the Child Trained in the Way He Should Go
B. 17–29 The Words of the Wise Begin: Excellent Things Written for Thee

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- Ecclesiastes 7:1A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
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- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
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Proverbs 293 verses
- Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- Proverbs 29:15A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
- Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
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Proverbs 233 verses
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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2 Timothy 32 verses
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Proverbs 142 verses
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Proverbs 162 verses
- Proverbs 16:13Righteous lips are a king’s delight, and he who speaks honestly is beloved.
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Proverbs 192 verses
- Proverbs 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.