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

²² Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate; ²³ For Yahweh will plead their case and despoil those who despoil them of life.

²⁴ Do not befriend an owner of {anger}, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate; ²⁵ lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself.

²⁶ Do not be with those who {give a pledge} {by becoming} surety. ²⁷ If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you?

²⁸ Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made.

²⁹ A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners.

¹ When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what [is] before you, ² and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a {big appetite}. ³ Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception.

⁴ Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist ⁵ Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.

⁶ Do not eat the bread of {the stingy}, and do not desire his delicacies. ⁷ For, like hair in his {throat}, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you. ⁸ Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words.

⁹ In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

¹⁰ Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach; ¹¹ For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you.