A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
3 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
11 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
1Din pa yɛ deɛ wɔpaw sene ahonyadeɛ kɛseɛ, na ɔdɔ adom sene dwetɛ ne sika kɔkɔɔ.Under pastoral review
2Ɔdefoɔ ne ohiani hyia mu: AWURADE ne wɔn nyinaa Yɛfoɔ.Under pastoral review
3Anitewfoɔ hunu bɔne no ansa, na ɔde ne ho sie: nanso atetekwaa twam kɔ, na wɔtwe wɔn aso.Under pastoral review
4Ahobrɛase ne AWURADE suro mu na ahonyadeɛ, ne animuonyam, ne nkwa wɔ.Under pastoral review
5Nsɔeɛ ne mfidie wɔ ɔkɔntɔnkyefoɔ kwan mu: deɛ ɔkora ne kra so no bɛtwe ne ho afiri wɔn ho.Under pastoral review
6Kyerɛkyerɛ abɔfra ɛkwan a ɛsɛ sɛ ɔfa so: na sɛ ɔnyini a, ɔremfiri so.Under pastoral review
7Ɔdefoɔ di ohiani so, na ɔboseagyefoɔ yɛ ɔbosea mafoɔ akoa.Under pastoral review
8Deɛ ɔdua amumuyɛ no bɛtwa ahuhudeɛ: na n'abufuo abaa bɛsɛe.Under pastoral review
9Deɛ ɔwɔ ani a ɛyɛ ayamyeɛ no, nhyira nka no; ɛfiri sɛ ɔde n'aduane ma ohiani.Under pastoral review
10Pam ɔfɛwdifoɔ no, na akyinnyeɛ bɛfiri adi; aane, akasakasa ne nsopa bɛgyae.Under pastoral review
11Deɛ ɔdɔ akoma a ɛho te no, n'anofafa adom enti, ɔhene bɛyɛ n'adamfo.Under pastoral review
12AWURADE ani bɔ nimdeɛ ho ban, na ɔdwiri ɔmmaratoni nsɛm gu.Under pastoral review
13Deɛ ɔyɛ aniha no ka sɛ, Gyata wɔ abɔnten, wɔbɛkum me wɔ mmɔntene so.Under pastoral review
14Mmaa hɔhoɔ ano yɛ amena a emu dɔ: deɛ AWURADE tan no no bɛtɔ mu.Under pastoral review
15Nkwaseasɛm kyekyere abɔfra akoma mu; nanso nteɛteɛeɛ abaa bɛpam no akɔ akyiri afiri ne ho.Under pastoral review
16Deɛ ɔhyɛ ohiani so sɛ ɔbɛnya bebree, ne deɛ ɔma ɔdefoɔ, ampa ara wɔbɛdi hia.Under pastoral review
17Brɛ w'aso ase, na tie anyansafoɔ nsɛm, na fa w'akoma ma me nimdeɛ.Under pastoral review
18Ɛfiri sɛ ɛyɛ dɛ sɛ wode wɔn bɛsie wo mu; wɔbɛfata w'anofafa so.Under pastoral review
19Sɛdeɛ w'ahotosoɔ bɛwɔ AWURADE mu, mama woahunu ɛnnɛ, wo ankasa.Under pastoral review
20Mentwerɛɛ nneɛma a ɛsom bo amma wo wɔ afotuo ne nimdeɛ mu anaa,Under pastoral review
21Sɛdeɛ mɛma woahunu nokorɛ nsɛm no ho nokorɛdie; sɛdeɛ wobɛtumi de nokorɛ nsɛm abua wɔn a wɔsoma wo?Under pastoral review
22Nsisi ohiani, ɛfiri sɛ ɔyɛ ohiani: na nhyɛ ɔbrɛfoɔ so wɔ ɛpono ano:Under pastoral review
23Ɛfiri sɛ AWURADE bɛdi wɔn asɛm ama wɔn, na wafom wɔn a wɔfom wɔn no kra.Under pastoral review
24Ne onipa a ne bo fu nnyɛ adamfo; na wo ne onipa a ne bo huru nnkɔ:Under pastoral review
25Sɛdeɛ worensua n'akwan, na woannya afidie ama wo kra.Under pastoral review
26Nnyɛ wɔn a wɔbɔ nsa no mu baako, anaa wɔn a wɔdi ka ho akagyinamu.Under pastoral review
27Sɛ wonni biribiara a wode bɛtua a, adɛn enti na ɛsɛ sɛ ɔyi wo mpa firi w'ase?Under pastoral review
28Nyi tete ɛhyeɛ agyirae a w'agyanom asi no.Under pastoral review
29Wohunu onipa a ɔyɛ nsiyɛfoɔ wɔ n'adwuma mu anaa? ɔbɛgyina ahene anim; ɔrennyina nnipa hunu anim.Under pastoral review