Proverbs 22:22-Proverbs 23:11 - Living With Your Neighbor

²² See that thou rob not the poor because he is weak, and oppress not the simple in judgment; ²³ for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

²⁴ Make no friendship with an angry willful man, and keep no company with the furious; ²⁵ lest thou learn his ways, and receive hurt unto thy soul.

²⁶ Be not thou one of them that bind their hand upon promise, and are surety for debt; ²⁷ for if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from under thee.

²⁸ Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

²⁹ Seest thou not, that they which be diligent in their business stand before kings, and not among the simple people?

¹ When thou sittest at the table to eat with a lord, order thyself mannerly with the things that are set before thee. ² Measure thine appetite: ³ and if thou wilt rule thy own self, be not over greedy of his meat, for meat beguileth and deceiveth.

⁴ Take not over great travail and labour to be rich, beware of such a purpose. ⁵ Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.

⁶ Eat not thou with the envious, and desire not his meat, ⁷ for he doth as a man that pescribeth a measure in his heart. He sayeth unto thee, "Eat and drink," whereas his heart is not with thee. ⁸ Yea the morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreak and loose those sweet words.

⁹ Tell nothing into the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless. ¹¹ For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.