Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; and if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful hand shall be under tribute.

There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.

Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is lost for want of judgment.

He that is poor is hated even of his own neighbour; but the rich hath many friends.

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; but he that honoureth Him is gracious to the needy.

The thoughts of the evil man are an abomination to Jehovah; but pure words are pleasant.

Whoso mocketh a poor man reproacheth his Maker; he that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent.

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

The spirit of a man sustaineth his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

He that is poor speaketh with supplications, but the rich answereth roughly.

Better is a poor man that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Wealth addeth many friends; but the poor is separated from his friend.

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

He that is gracious to the poor lendeth unto Jehovah; and what he hath bestowed will he repay unto him.

The charm of a man is his kindness; and a poor man is better than a liar.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Bad! bad! saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.

He that loveth mirth shall be a poor man; he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.

The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, bringeth only to want.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.

A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse, double in ways, though he be rich.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.

The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; the wicked understandeth not knowledge.

A king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.

there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;

Under three things the earth is disquieted, and under four it cannot bear up: