Proverbs
Chapters 22:10-16
New International Version Anglicized
10Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;quarrels and insults are ended.
11One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with gracewill have the king for a friend.
12The eyes of the Lord keep watch over knowledge,but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
13The sluggard says, ‘There’s a lion outside!I’ll be killed in the public square!’
14The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.
15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.
16One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealthand one who gives gifts to the rich – both come to poverty.Saying 1