Proverbs

²The rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. [Job 31:15; Prov. 14:31.] ³A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished [with suffering]. ⁴The reward of humility and the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. ⁵Thorns and snares are in the way of the obstinate and willful; he who guards himself will be far from them. ⁶Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Eph. 6:4; II Tim. 3:15.] ⁷The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ⁸He who sows iniquity will reap calamity and futility, and the rod of his wrath [with which he smites others] will fail.