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

²² Don’t rob a poor man because he is poor,
and don’t crush the oppressed at the gate,
²³ for the Lord will take up their case
and will plunder those who plunder them.

²⁴ Don’t make friends with an angry man,
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered man,
²⁵ or you will learn his ways
and entangle yourself in a snare.

²⁶ Don’t be one of those who enter agreements,
who put up security for loans.
²⁷ If you have no money to pay,
even your bed will be taken from under you.

²⁸ Don’t move an ancient boundary marker
that your fathers set up.

²⁹ Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will stand in the presence of kings.
He will not stand in the presence of unknown men.

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¹ When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what is before you,
² and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big appetite;
³ don’t desire his choice food,
for that food is deceptive.

⁴ Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;
stop giving your attention to it.
⁵ As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

⁶ Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,
and don’t desire his choice food,
⁷ for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.
⁸ You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.

⁹ Don’t speak to a fool,
for he will despise the insight of your words.

¹⁰ Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
¹¹ for their Redeemer is strong,
and He will take up their case against you.