'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 73 verses
- Ecclesiastes 7:1A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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Proverbs 143 verses
- Proverbs 14:16A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
- Proverbs 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
- Proverbs 14:35The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
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Proverbs 293 verses
- Proverbs 29:1He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
- Proverbs 29:22An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
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Proverbs 233 verses
- Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- Proverbs 23:12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- Proverbs 23:27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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2 Timothy 32 verses
- 2 Timothy 3:8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
- 2 Timothy 3:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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Proverbs 162 verses
- Proverbs 16:13Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
- Proverbs 16:17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
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Proverbs 222 verses
- Proverbs 22:16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
- Proverbs 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Proverbs 192 verses
- Proverbs 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
- Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
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